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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jessie Royce Landis, Pierre Dux
Directed By: Anatole Litvak
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302946550
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6302946557
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 1994-03-07
Running Time: 120
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1961
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Summary: Imperfect Relationships Explored with Gallic Ruefulness But Hamstrung by Perkins
Comment: It amazes me to find out that Anthony Perkins won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for his skittish, petulant performance as Philip, the aimless, lovestruck "younger man" in this 1961 Paris-set soap opera about a May-September romance with Paula, a successful, fortyish interior decorator ensnared in a going-nowhere relationship with Roger, an age-appropriate transportation businessman who has casual affairs with young women he dubs impersonally as "Maisie". Naturally, Roger takes Paula for granted, which leaves her vulnerable to Philip's flirtatious advances. However, Perkins is an actor intractably tethered to his definitive role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and unfortunately in his first follow-up film, he emits an aura of creepy adolescent obsession that makes you fear more for Paula's life than her heart.
On the upside is Ingrid Bergman's textured performance as Paula, and her mature beauty seems to reflect perfectly her saturnine situation. She is believably matched with Yves Montand as Roger in a performance that seems to echo his real-life situation with wife Simone Signoret when he embarked on a well-publicized affair with Marilyn Monroe the year before. Jesse Royce Landis shows up in her typical role as a pompous society matron, this time Philip's cheapskate mother, while Diahann Carroll shows up in a disposable cameo as a world-weary jazz chanteuse. Director Anatole Litvak paces the film a bit too leisurely and adds some silly but amusing touches like Paula's delusion of rain as she drives during a crying jag, but he creatively uses a circular structure to his plot by beginning and ending the film with almost the same scene. Adapting Francoise Sagan's Aimez-vous Brahms ..., screenwriter Samuel Taylor lends the sort of wry observations he contributed to his scripts for Sabrina and Vertigo. As of April 2008, this film is not available on DVD.
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Summary: What is love?
Comment: Perkins captures the charm and passion of a young man trapped in his socially privileged circumstances who falls in love with a taken although unmarried older Ingrid Bergman, while the stunningly beautiful Bergman plays a confident woman who, deep inside, is desperate for her noncommittal beau's love (Yves Montand). A strong businesswoman by day, at night she craves his attention and weakens, accepting his indiscretions with floozies. She eventually succumbs to Perkin's charms as he courts her, for although a man much her junior, he gives her the love and attentions she craves from Montand.
We watch Bergman and Perkins play a dance of both truth and daydreams, and we question what is really possible, what is really felt, and, what is love?
This question is asked during a scene where Perkins' character is in a jazz bar and asks the signer, "what is love?" She replies in song, and unlike most films where I feel uneasy with the campy musical scenes, this is GOOD. (And who is she? Someone please leave a comment and let me know.) This one scene captures the feeling of the whole film- lovely, tragic, blue, above social mores, passionate feelings lurking beneath, truth coming out from the young but the hard truths lived by the more mature settled people.
At the film's conclusion we don't have a clear answer as to what love is, but we do know what it is not.
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Summary: O tempore O mores!
Comment: This brilliant film version of the even more brilliant Sagan story has it all: The atmosphere, glamour and sophistication of Paris in the early 60's (though it hasn't actually changed much)and genuinely great performances by three masters of the acting craft.
I especially enjoyed it for the snapshot it gives us of how society viewed May/December relationships when it was the man who was the younger partner. Okay, there has been a lot of tongue-wagging about Demi Moore and that Ashton Guy, but not like it was then. Having been the Older Woman in just such a relationship, I can verify that every feeling and conflict was authentic, including Roger's reaction when she points out that she is doing nothing that he hasn't been doing all along. He says, with disgust, "Yes, but at least with me it's normal!" Interesting, given that his stepdaughter recently published a book claiming that he was sexually abusing her from the time she was 5 years old...
Still, it's a great film!
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Summary: From Paris, with love
Comment: Put on your pjs, make the popcorn, and settle back for one superb chick-flick! Ingrid Bergman stars as a sophisticated Parisian who has had an "understanding" with Yves Montand for five years. The understanding is she's madly in love with and faithful to him; he's free to date other women and see her when it's convenient. Enter Anthony Perkins as a rich, spoiled young man who falls head over heels for Ingrid. She's flattered, but she's forty; should she stop waiting for Yves and start a relationship with this twenty-five year old?
This film whisks you away to another time in the movies, when ladies always wore gloves, men always wore suits or tuxedos, and everyone smoked (glamorously). It's hard to take your eyes off Ingrid Bergman. She is stunningly beautiful and a consummate actress. Your eyes, however, will most definitely be drawn to the gorgeous Mr. Montand, who plays the amorous cad with such aplomb. Anthony Perkins' character is a needy, immature, almost creepy stalker. It's an unusual performance. The film is based on Françoise Sagan's Aimez-vous Brahms? and the rich and romantic sounds of Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F add to the drama.
I heartily recommend Goodbye Again to those who enjoy films with romance, heartbreak, and beautiful music.
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Summary: Tony Perkins steals the show in this soap
Comment: Tony Perkins won the Cannes film festival for his performance in this movie and it's not hard to see why. It was made during the period of his life when he had moved to Europe to seek roles.
The movie concerns Ingrid Bergman who is a forty year old maid. In her eyes this is the case and she obsesses about love and marriage. Her boyfriend, the perfectly cast Yves Montand, is a dog. A man who rather spent his weekends with young girls. Tony drops into the picture an interesting, grown up moody child. The performance is stagey because the character is but Perkins seeps remarkably into the role. The ending is perfect. A conclusion that satisfied me. Diahann Carroll sings a number in the picture as well. She is stunning.
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