The iconic character of Holly Golightly, made popular by Audrey Hepburn, will be in theatres once again for Breakfast at Tiffany’s 55^th anniversary on November 30th. Audrey Hepburn is one of my favorite actresses and I love watching her play the stylish Holly. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is one of my all-time favorite romantic, rainy day movies and after watching this movie, you too will want to eat pastries outside of Tiffany’s for breakfast while wearing a chic, black gown. I know I did.

For those unfamiliar with the premise of the movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, directed by Blake Edwards, is about Holly Golighty, an escort who is aspiring to attain a lavish lifestyle. She runs away from her past as country girl and moves to New York to live the city life. While in New York, she tries to find happiness in luxury and searches for a rich man to marry. Throughout Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly hides under a façade to accommodate her new lifestyle. She dresses in a stylish manner and throws posh and sometimes wild parties to help her meet a wealthy man of her dreams. However, in the process she ends up prostituting herself to pay for all her expenses.

Holly’s life changes though when she meets Paul Varjak, played by George Peppard, a novelist who moves into her apartment building and leads a lifestyle comparable to Holly’s. To help pay for his novels to get published, he basically prostitutes himself to a rich married women who pays for all his things. Since Holly lives a similar lifestyle, Paul and Holly end up connecting as both are striving for their own version of success and will do anything to get it. As Paul begins to spend more time with Holly, he eventually falls in love with her.

Though Holly ends up loving Paul back, her selfish ambitions interfere with her relationship with Paul. For example, she continues to push Paul away throughout the movie because in almost all her relationships, real love has never entered into the equation as she would only use men to fund her lifestyle and pay for dates. Furthermore, she longs to marry a rich man to provide financial stability and a glamorous lifestyle and with Paul, the only thing he could offer her is his love. As a result, Holly is reluctant to take it because she would have to stop hiding under a façade and face the reality that she could love someone more for just their money.

One of my favorite scenes in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is when Paul wakes up to hear Holly singing Moon River outside Paul’s bedroom window. Audrey Hepburn sings the song with such honesty that she brings truth to the lyrics of the song. The lyrics describe Holly and Paul’s relationship with one another and how they are alike. The song fits the scene perfectly because her singing the song is like a wake up call to Paul telling him that Holly is the one for him.

One of the most memorable sequences in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is when Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak spend a day in the city together taking turns doing things that they have both never done before. In the first scene, Paul takes Holly to the library because she’s never been there where he signs one of his own novels. In the second scene, Holly takes Paul to Tiffany’s where he has never been where she receives an engraved Cracker Jack that Paul gets her. In the third scene, Holly takes Paul go to a discount store where they steal masks and run away from the store without getting caught. Previous to these scenes, Paul and Holly have a strictly platonic relationship. However, through these scenes, it is evident that their relationship is becoming much more. At the end of these scenes, Paul and Holly share a kiss symbolizing that though they were both hiding under facades, their love for each other is the only thing that’s genuinely real in their lives.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a cute love story that keeps the audience captivated as anyone watching will want to continue in order to find out if Holly and Paul end up together. Overall, I love this film and I feel like Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard do an outstanding job playing the leads, making the characters seem very real and relatable. Both characters are dreamers trying to find happiness with material successes but maybe all they need is just love and each other.