Very charming
This movie has not lost its appeal. It tells a poignant story of a girl who is many things to many people, but is too afraid to find out who she really is. The film conveys moments of heartbreak, high comedy and melancholic whimsy. And, in the middle of it all, lies the moving performance of Audrey Hepburn as Truman Capote's deliciously named Holly Golightly.
Hepburn is all over the map with her performance of Golightly, a girl who desperately needs to be loved, but, in the moment of truth, cannot find it within herself to reciprocate. So, she pushes away all of those who ever cared for her. When her past catches up with her in one crucial scene, it is bruising to observe how she denies that her past ever existed. And, as you watch a bus pull away with the hopes and dreams of a man utterly shattered, you wonder how many more will end up like him, caught up in Holly's delusional world.
This is truly great cinema, with one of the great female lead performances of the 20th century.