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7.1/10 • 39

1961-05-231h 55m

DramaRomance

This is how love is...and always will be...

Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.

Directors
Anatole Litvak
Editors
Bert Bates

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Ingrid Bergman

    Ingrid Bergman

    Paula Tessier

  2. Yves Montand

    Yves Montand

    Roger Demarest

  3. Anthony Perkins

    Anthony Perkins

    Philip Van der Besh

  4. Jessie Royce Landis

    Jessie Royce Landis

    Mrs. Van der Besh

  5. Pierre Dux

    Pierre Dux

    Maître Fleury

  6. Jocelyn Lane

    Jocelyn Lane

    First Maisie

  7. Jean Clarke

    Jean Clarke

    Second Maisie

  8. Michèle Mercier

    Michèle Mercier

    Third Maisie

  9. Alison Leggatt

    Alison Leggatt

    Alice

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CinemaSerf

Aug 20, 2025

7/10

“Paula” (Ingrid Bergman) has been dating “Roger” (Yves Montand) for a while, but though she really does care for him quite deeply, the romantic spark is waning a bit and she suspects that he is playing away from home on his fairly regular business trips. She isn’t looking to change things, but when she meets the adoring “Philip” (Anthony Perkins) his naive innocence and enthusiastic attempts at courtship bring something refreshing, exhilarating even, to her own rather staid lifestyle. When she learns that “Roger” is once again up to mischief, things with the younger man take on a new dynamic - but are either being fair to the other? Though most of her clients tolerate “Roger” and his peccadilloes, are they going to be prepared to indulge her appearances in restaurants and parties with this especially green (and not very alcohol tolerant) man? Bergman is almost maternal as she depicts a woman, highly successful in business but just, in her way, as in need of comfort as the besotted “Philip” - a part ably portrayed by the on-form Perkins in what I think might be my favourite of his performances. Montand also brings something of the rakish sophisticate to his part in a fashion that almost gets under your fingernails and there’s a solid effort from Jessie Royce Landis as the young man’s mother who has to tread on the eggshells strewn around her with some aplomb, too. It takes quite a poignant look at ageism and sexism, stereotypes and it does it in quite a light-hearted fashion making it’s point about hypocrisy and double-standards without pontificating at us. The production is classy and Anatole Litvak lets at least four actors take hold of this quite intimate melodrama and leave us certain that, by the end, nothing will be certain.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
$1,600,000.00
Keywords
paris, francelove affairolder woman younger man relationshipsocial scandalpassion and romanceromantictouching and sentimental