Goodbye Again (1961)

To me, this movie is perfection.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Good idea lost in the noise

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

it is one of films who remains in memory for the different manner of actors to build their characters. for the beauty of few scenes. for the tension who are just puzzle of nuances. a film about love as sense of life. it preserves the spirit of Sagan's novel. and transforms the pages not exactly in images but in a special flavor of spring and autumn's leaves. Ingrid Bergman is herself and gives to her character admirable precision. Anthony Perkins seems discover his character step by step and that does him a kind of comrade of viewer. Yves Montand is the ordinary man looking for easy form of happiness. the result - a touching film who remains as useful tool for rediscover the rhythm and the sensitivity of a lost period.

High class soap opera with Ingrid, stylishly dressed and becomingly coiffured, looking wonderful. She of course gives the best performance with Anthony Perkins a close second. The main problem is that her longing for Yves Montand, a stolid lout, is puzzling. In a sign of how the times have changed the enchanting beautiful Ingrid, who states that she is forty, considers herself old and seems desperately afraid of being alone and is willing to settle for crumbs from a man whom she is clearly to good for. Still as these sort of pictures go this is a fine diversion, competently directed with handsome black and white photography. Jessie Royce Landis is fun in a small part as Tony's mother.

As a reviewer said here, when we praise a movie, we overdo it, and when we diss one, we're really down on it.But, this has to be one of the best movies Ingrid Bergman ever made. The casting in this movie was inspired. Ingrid loves Yves Montand, but he won't commit to the married life, and Montand is perfect as the man who wants both his freedom and Ingrid, who also has her freedom to date other men, but doesn't want to. "Some freedom," her maid says. Her maid is like the french equivalent of a Thelma Ritter character.Ingrid is an interior decorator. Enter Jessie Royce Landis, who is just great as an exacting and demanding (and cheap) client of Ingrid's, who's also very rich. Enter Anthony Perkins, soon after making "Psycho," as Landis' son. He obviously falls for Ingrid, and she loves the attention, since she's unhappy with her situation.The rest you have to see for yourself. The viewer is on a roller-coaster ride of emotions, as we feel everything Ingrid feels and even Tony, too. Miss this and you miss true actors at their best. By the way, do you like Brahms?

Well, in 1961, it had to be. It had to be the outcome (sadly) that Paula cannot enjoy Phillip and instead looks in the mirror, applies cold cream, and settles in for yet another evening of rejection and alienation as perpetuated by her faithless husband Roger. Well portrayed by Yves Montand, the trite and true comment "they mean nothing to me", as he cavorts with yet another substance less mistress.The tables are turned when a very young Tony Perkins(Phillip) appears on the scene and falls for Bergman. He is sympathetic in that he is searching for a deeper relationship, tired of young frivolous girls, and wants something he ultimately cannot have.Some of the scenes where he is elated, driving through Paris and reveling in the new affair are cinematic and affecting. Also there is a nice scene with a young and gorgeous Diahann Carroll, a lounge singer, singing the blues, telling Perkins life will go on..., love is just a word.This is a wonderful, forgotten film of cinema verity, at first I had assumed this was the comedic film fluff Bergman had filmed with Cary Grant, a forgettable romantic comedy. No,this film is the opposite, an affecting and relevant drama. Today perhaps the story would end on a positive note for the woman rather than her staying in a dead marriage with a faithless boor. 9/10.