Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk (1959)
a film by Michael Gordon

I don't know what I was doing when I was a kid, but everybody seems to have watched at least one Doris Day film. I've seen clips of her movies but I was never encouraged to watch a whole movie. It took the limited selection of Netflix Canada and the distant memory of a film of a more recent film (Down with love) to get me to watch Pillow Talk. It proved to be a nice and entertaining experience. It is a fun and refreshing movie with a tone of romantic comedy that never ages even when people don't have to suffer party phone lines anymore.

Doris Day plays an independent and stylish interior decorator who has to share a phone line with Rock Hudson who plays a chauvinistic and handsome music composer. They hate each other and I don't want to spoil the movie by describing how they fall in love.

Rock Hudson and Doris Day make a really funny duo and their dialogs and the scenes are fullof humor and grace. In this sense pillow talk seems to be a manual for making a good romantic comedy. There is a best friend of the couple, there is teasing and there is romance. What is memorable about Pillow Talk is the freshness and the perfect combination of the elements that are still in use for this kind of stories.

This film is not an art-house production but it is great in its own style and addressing a wide audience. It is an aesthetically beautiful and stylish film in the lighthearted spirit of a fresh and entertaining romantic comedy.