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Roman Holiday

Witty, warm and beautifully filmed by Franz Planer and Henri Alekan, it remains an unabashed romantic delight, with Hepburn particularly luminescent.

...a modern fairytale whose two leads have a charm and innocence that irradiate the whole movie...

Hepburn and Peck revel in their shared duplicity but almost take a backseatto the splendour of the Italian capital...

This near-perfect romcom gave an unknown actress called Audrey Hepburn her ‘hello world’ moment in 1953 – making her an overnight star at 24.

The film also has enough adventure and excitement to satisfy, and the faintly bittersweet note of the ending is made deliciously palatable by its artistic rightness.