Audrey

Despite an array of eloquent talking heads - including actor Richard Dreyfuss, director Peter Bogdanovich and Hepburn's son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer - director Helena Coan's serviceable portrait of Audrey Hepburn rarely goes deeper than describing her as "iconic". Born in Belgium to semi-aristocratic, fascistic parents, Hepburn trained in ballet and acting and, after she starred in Gigi on Broadway, her film career took off with William Wyler's Roman Holiday. Hepburn found it difficult to live up to her famous Breakfast at Tiffany's persona ("a kook, a dizzy, gay type of girl"), and endured two failed marriages (to actor Mel Ferrer and psychiatrist Andrea Dotti). The film touches on Hepburn's humanitarianism and ambassadorial work, with gaps filled in by gauzy dramatic reconstructions of Hepburn dancing in a tutu, but more might have been made of the horrifying privations of Nazi-occupied Holland she suffered as a child. As Hepburn's granddaughter explains, "she fought to project a perfectly curated image of herself". And although Hepburn claimed to be "truly grateful and terribly happy", it's only in retrospect that her sadness is revealed.