
In this adaptation of Françoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful and highly successful 40-year-old businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of five years. Roger is a very charming gallant who loves Paula but is too selfish to give up his freedom to be promiscuous. When Paula meets Phillip, the 24-year-old immature lawyer son of one of her rich clients, he falls hopelessly in love with the glamorous, sympathetic older woman and insis... (Full plot summary below)
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In this adaptation of Françoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful and highly successful 40-year-old businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of five years. Roger is a very charming gallant who loves Paula but is too selfish to give up his freedom to be promiscuous. When Paula meets Phillip, the 24-year-old immature lawyer son of one of her rich clients, he falls hopelessly in love with the glamorous, sympathetic older woman and insists that the age difference will be no barrier to a romance. Paula resists the young man's persistent advances, but she finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young Maisies. An affair begins, and society does not approve.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThough well acted, especially by Ingrid Bergman, as the woman in love with the suave Yves Montand and the boyish Anthony Perkins, the melodrama has not aged well. |
| User ReviewMackenzie SA fasinating film. You would never think Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Perkins would make a good pair...well they don't. This film shows a middle-aged woman who makes terrible choices in men. Yves Montand plays her boyfriend (who just happens to be sleeping with young super models) and she comes off naive of the whole situation. I loved the ending, how she ends the relationship with Perkins and goes back to Montand thinking everything will be better; however, it ends with him calling her telling her he won't be able to make it to their date (he is obviously with some young woman). It then ends with Ingrid facing the mirror as she takes her make-up off. Brilliant. |
| User ReviewNoel KThe best younger man older woman romance movie that I have seen. The ever so lovely Ingrid Bergman is perfectly cast the older single woman. Anthony Perkins is great as the lovestruck younger man (he reminds of Goethe's Werther) and Yves Montand does his best at being the two timing playboy. The movie is based on Françoise Sagan's Aimez Vous Brahms?. Brahms was a bachelor and lived by the motto "Free, but lonely", which describes Bergman's character. It is also the basis for Brahm's Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90. |
| User ReviewKip KThe movie version of "Do you like Brahms" the novel by Francoise Sagan. Ingrid Bergman in a touching performance of a middle aged woman torn between her love to her playboy lover of 5 years and a sensitive younger man who gives her the love and attention she wants and needs. With the charming Yves Montand as the older lover and a somewhat nervous and uncertain in himself Anthony Perkins as the younger man. Recommended. |
| User ReviewAlex STouching story about love, affairs, and wisdom born from allowing relationships to come full circle. Bergman plays a successful woman (with a wise young maid) who is in a comfortable relationship with Montand, who under appreciates her. Enter Perkins as a bored, talented, and rich young man yearning for the love of an older woman - just not anyone too like his mother. Thus is begun a menage a trois guaranteed to put everyone's heart through the wringer. Don't watch if you dislike Brahms! |
| User ReviewScott SGoodbye Again (1961) -- [6.0] -- Tired of her boyfriend's sexual indiscretions, Ingrid Bergman reluctantly begins an affair with a much younger man (Anthony Perkins). The relationship is doomed from the start, of course, and everything ends in tears. Bergman is uncharacteristically manic. There's a nice scene where she's crying behind the wheel and turns on the windshield wipers to see better, even though it's not raining. When she realizes what she's done, her sobbing turns to laughter. It's another good performance from one of cinema's loveliest leading ladies. Director Anatole Litvak indulges in conventions of the time, including several montages and a way-too-groovy '60s soundtrack. It takes an irritatingly long time for Bergman and Perkins to finally hook up and the ending yields little surprise, but if you're a fan of the leads, "Goodbye Again" is worth a look. |
| User ReviewLupe BHigh class soap opera with Ingrid, stylishly dressed and becomingly coiffured, looking wonderful. She of course gives the best performance with Perkins a close second. The main problem is that her longing for 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. Jessie Royce Landis is fun in a small part as Tony's mother. |
| User ReviewJacquie Pa bit long but good, ingrid berman and anthony perkins are both excellent |
| User ReviewGreg WThough well acted, especially by Ingrid Bergman, as the woman in love with the suave Yves Montand and the boyish Anthony Perkins, the melodrama has not aged well kinda like a 'graduate' knock-off. |
| User ReviewJoey SIt's a little melodramatic and overly long, but Goodbye Again is still an enjoyable and entertaining romance, thanks largely to a charismatic performance from Anthony Perkins. Perkins, who was fresh off of his big role in Psycho, brings a certain liveliness and joy to the movie that makes it easy to like. Perkins is also accompanied by two other veteran actors, Ingrid Bergman and Yves Montand, who both give good performances as well, but his performance is what really stands out in Goodbye Again and makes it worth seeing. |