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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.
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Classical in form, earnest, spare and character-led.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20257/10
“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 al
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Cast
- Ingrid BergmanPaula Tessier
- Yves MontandRoger Demarest
- Anthony PerkinsPhilip Van der Besh
- Jessie Royce LandisMrs. Van der Besh
- Pierre DuxMaître Fleury
- Jocelyn LaneFirst Maisie
- Jean ClarkeSecond Maisie
- Michèle MercierThird Maisie
- Alison LeggattAlice
- Uta TaegerGaby
Crew
- Anatole LitvakDirector
- Samuel A. TaylorScreenplay
- Françoise SaganNovel
- Armand ThirardDirector of Photography
- Georges AuricOriginal Music Composer
- Bert BatesEditor
- Anatole LitvakProducer
- Arthur KrimProducer
- Robert BenjaminProducer
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