This movie was a disappointment to me. I had hoped that it would be something like "Brief Encounter", but with more attractive leading actors. And it is - partly. The romance is there.
But it is interspersed with social realism, the psychoanalytic lingo that was so common in novels and movies in the 1960:s, an unhealthy atmosphere overall among the middle-aged couples in the upper middle-class neighborhood, a lot of talking and reasoning... It is also much too long and partly tedious.
All this does not fit into a romantic love story. The most incongruous thing of all, however, was the end music: an angelic choir with a sugar-sweet, romantic song, that should have been just right in an animated Disney Princess movie... I wonder what the person who chose that end song was thinking about..? :-O
Despite from my criticism above, I think there are good scenes too that illuminate the disastrous situation that I think most of us at least brush against at on time or other in our lives. I.e.: to fall in love with someone who is already married, or to fall in love with someone else while one is oneself married. Or both, as in this film.
For instance the scene when Kim Novak, playing the unfaithful wife, is walking around in the private rooms of her married lover and his wife. The look of all the little intimate things THOSE two share - the bed, the towels, the toilet utensils, and not least the kid who suddenly appears in the door - suddenly makes her understand what it is she is trying to destroy. A marriage and a family. That scene is superb!
But it is interspersed with social realism, the psychoanalytic lingo that was so common in novels and movies in the 1960:s, an unhealthy atmosphere overall among the middle-aged couples in the upper middle-class neighborhood, a lot of talking and reasoning... It is also much too long and partly tedious.
All this does not fit into a romantic love story. The most incongruous thing of all, however, was the end music: an angelic choir with a sugar-sweet, romantic song, that should have been just right in an animated Disney Princess movie... I wonder what the person who chose that end song was thinking about..? :-O
Despite from my criticism above, I think there are good scenes too that illuminate the disastrous situation that I think most of us at least brush against at on time or other in our lives. I.e.: to fall in love with someone who is already married, or to fall in love with someone else while one is oneself married. Or both, as in this film.
For instance the scene when Kim Novak, playing the unfaithful wife, is walking around in the private rooms of her married lover and his wife. The look of all the little intimate things THOSE two share - the bed, the towels, the toilet utensils, and not least the kid who suddenly appears in the door - suddenly makes her understand what it is she is trying to destroy. A marriage and a family. That scene is superb!