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Goodbye Again
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.
- Original title
- Goodbye Again
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- $1,600,000
CinemaSerf
Aug 20, 2025 · via TMDB
“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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Ingrid Bergman
Paula Tessier
Yves Montand
Roger Demarest
Anthony Perkins
Philip Van der Besh
Jessie Royce Landis
Mrs. Van der Besh
Pierre Dux
Maître Fleury
Jocelyn Lane
First Maisie
Michèle Mercier
Third Maisie
Alison Leggatt
Alice
Uta Taeger
Gaby
David Horne
Queen's Counsel
Peter Bull
Client
Diahann Carroll
Nightclub Singer
Henri Attal
Man at Concert
Paul Bonifas
Cellarman
Yul Brynner
Extra in Nightclub Scene
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Dancer
Germaine Delbat
Usherette
Annie Duperoux
Madeline Fleury
Michel Garland
Young Man in Club
Raymond Gérôme
Jimmy
Jean Hébey
Monsieur Cherel
Jean Michaud
François
Moustache
Personality Dancing at the Épi Club
Jean Ozenne
Van Der Besh's Guest
Lee Patrick
Madame Fleury
Dominique Zardi
Man at Concert
Alexandre Trauner
Art Direction
Alexandre Trauner
Production Design
Maurice Binder
Title Designer
Armand Thirard
Director of Photography
Anatole Litvak
Director
Anatole Litvak
Producer
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Dory Previn
Lyricist
Françoise Sagan
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