This movie is adorable. I always get a little suspicious when Netflix recommends something to me with five stars. I feel like it's a little hyperbolic of them to predict that I'll "love" whatever it is. But their algorithm was absolutely spot on. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie.Nicole Bonnet (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of a French count and noted art collector. Only she knows that her father's (Hugh Griffith) famed collections are forgeries, done by the man himself. She urges him to be more circumspect, but he blithely decides to loan a (forged) Cellini statue to a Parisian museum. The same night as the statue's grand unveiling, Nicole stops a thief (Peter O'Toole) from taking one of her father's Van Gogh's. This "society burgler" is just the man she needs when she discovers that the museum is bringing in an expert to verify the statue's authenticity in order to issue an insurance policy on it, so she hires him to steal it from the museum. Of course, he's not exactly who he is pretending to be because where's the fun in that?
It's a William Wyler comedy, for those of you who know what that means, and it's available on streaming right now. Better hurry before Netflix changes its mind again.
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