Goodbye Again (1961 Anatole Litvak)

Not having read François Sagan's novel, I can't comment on its adaptation. And why should I anyway? My neighbour Ann cannot understand that a novel is a novel and a film is a film, and there is no mileage in comparing the two. In any event, it's been adapted by the great Samuel Taylor, author of the plays and screenplays of Avanti and Sabrina, and screenwriter of Vertigo (as regular readers will know, a thoroughly good chap).

The always fabulous Ingrid Bergman has made the mistake of allowing womanising boyfriend Yves Montand to get away with it for five years; she finally succumbs to the assiduous advances of young lover Anthony Perkins, who I've never seen smile so much.

Great use of Brahms 3rd Symphony, incidental music by Auric, nice jazz also with singer Diahann Carroll.

Jesse Royce Landis and Allison Leggatt (This Happy Breed) co-star.

I like a film set in Paris which actually is set in Paris.

Avoid Korean DVD though, which is at the wrong frame rate and not anamorphic, though does preserve the 1.66:1 ratio.