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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302946550
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ISBN: 6302946557
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: March 07, 1994
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 10261
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1961
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A beautifully pained expression of the bitter realities of old age...
I stumbled onto this movie the other night on TCM, and since it starred Ingrid Bergman (who I am eternally smitten) I decided that I had to watch it. What may to some be shrugged aside as nothing more than a well crafted `chick flick' actually turned itself into a beautifully pained look at the inevitable trap of age. It wasn't until the films final frame that it all hit me like a ton of bricks, the message so clear to me, that I had to watch the film all over again to fully appreciate all that ... Read More
Rating: - Hello Again!
This love story, initially called Aimez-vous Brahms (Do You Like Brahms?) contains all of the themes necessary to make it a continuous classic.
Three major performances given by three tremendous actors. Ingrid Bergman in one of her later roles is heart-breakingly beautiful, and Anthony Perkins gives a performance so joyful, vulnerable and nuanced, I find something different in it every time I see it.
Add to it a time in Paris that is magical and a score by Brahms that is unforgettable. ... Read More
Rating:  - Imperfect Relationships Explored with Gallic Ruefulness But Hamstrung by Perkins
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 ... Read More
Rating: - What is love?
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 ... Read More
Rating: - O tempore O mores!
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, ... Read More
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