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Goodbye Again (Film)

Classic Movie


The film Goodbye Again was released in Europe as Aimez-vous Brahms?, adapted from a novel by Francoise Sagan, first published in French in 1959, and published in English the following year. In 1961, it was made into a romantic drama film under the title Goodbye Again, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak. The screenplay was written by Samuel A. Taylor. The film, released by United Artists, stars Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, and Jessie Royce Landis.


Brief Plot

Paula Tessier (Ingrid Bergman) is a beautiful and highly successful 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the mistress of Roger Demarest (Yves Montand), a very charming  "philandering business executive" who loves Paula but is too selfish to give up his freedom to be promiscuous. He refuses to stop seeing other women. When Paula meets Philip (Anthony Perkins), the 24-year-old immature lawyer son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls hopelessly in love with her and insists that the age difference will not matter. Paula resists the young man's advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young Maisies. While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the romance.


Soundtrack 

Johannes Brahms Symphony No.3, in F. major, Op.90, III. Poco allegretto, YouTube, uploaded by uenenum. Accessed , accessed May 7, 2021. (Orchestra of the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, 2012.)

Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto, adapted by Georges Auric, Lyrics by Francoise Sagan.  Performed by Art Ferrante and Lou Teicher (as Ferrante & Teicher)

'Say No More It's Goodbye' Lyrics:
Sung by Dalida (Yolanda Cristina Gigliotti)
Another version sung by Diahann Carroll - here

Say no more it's goodbye
As before it's goodbye
Every move, every sigh
Seems to prove it's goodbye again.

Say no more it's goodbye
As before it's goodbye.
I can tell, save the lie
It's farewell and goodbye again my love.

So why deny you will leave me
You have in the past
If it isn't the first time
It won't be the last.

Say no more it's goodbye
As before it's goodbye
Every move, every sigh
Seems to prove it's goodbye again.

Say no more it's goodbye
As before it's goodbye
It's my fate, this I know
I must wait 'til you say hello again.


Video Credit: 

Brahms Symphony No. 3 (III. Poco Allegretto), with Karajan conducting. YouTube, uploaded by Nathaniel Adams.  Accessed May 7, 2017.  
 
Goodbye Again (1961) - "Love is just a word". YouTube, uploaded by giovanalago. Accessed May 7, 2017. 

Soundtracks.  IMDb. Accessed May 7, 2017.  


Image Credit:

Original Film Poster.  Wiki / United Artists.  Accessed May 7, 2017


Resources:

Goodbye Again (1961) Film.  en.wikipedia.org.  Accessed May 7, 2017.

Goodbye Again: FSM Online Line Notes. Accessed May 7, 2017. 

Goodbye Again. IMDb.  Accessed May 7, 2017.



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