Do you love Brahms?
| Movie | |
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| German title | Do you love Brahms? |
| Original title | Goodbye again |
| Country of production | France , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 115 minutes |
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| Director | Anatole Litvak |
| script | Samuel A. Taylor |
| production | Anatole Litvak |
| music | Georges Auric |
| camera | Armand Thirard |
| cut | Bert Bates |
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Do you love Brahms? (Original title: Goodbye Again ) is a French - American film directed by Anatole Litvak from 1961 based on the novel Do you love Brahms? (Original title: Aimez-vous Brahms? ) By Françoise Sagan .
The main musical motif of the film is borrowed from Johannes Brahms ' symphony No. 3 , the third movement Poco allegretto . The melody of the film song "Good bye again" comes from this. The music that sounds when Paula ponders her first encounter with Roger in the concert hall comes from Symphony No. 1 , the Allegro non troppo of the final movement.
Story of the movie
Paula, 40, an interior designer in Paris, and Roger, an agricultural machinery dealer, have been a couple for five years. Both had agreed years ago that they did not want to get married and that everyone in the relationship could do what they wanted. Roger lives out this modern attitude in many small affairs with young women. Paula, however, realizes that she is permanently bothering Roger's infidelity; she expects more from a relationship than just going out occasionally. In the house of a customer, she meets her 25-year-old son Philip, a law assessor with no professional ambitions. Philip immediately falls in love with Paula, but at first she does not take his love seriously. For them the age difference between the two is too great. Nevertheless, she often meets with Philip and is flattered by his courtship. She enters into a love affair with Philip and he is allowed to move into her apartment. After two months Paula realizes that she still loves Roger and that she cannot imagine a future with Philip because of the age difference. Roger asks Paula to come back and promises to marry her, which she then does. Paula hopes that Roger will now end his affairs, but after a short time she suspects that he will continue to meet young women.
backgrounds
The film was made just a year after Françoise Sagan's book was published. Litvak wanted to cast Paula with Ingrid Bergman from the start. Bergman immediately agreed because the matter - to address the love between an older woman and a younger man - was very important to her. Bergman, who was reprimanded by the American public in the late 1940s for her love affair with Roberto Rossellini , saw the role as an opportunity to question the crusted morals of bourgeois society.
Diahann Carroll sings “Goodbye again” in the film in a bar. The German title “Do you love Brahms?” Is, in addition to the literal translation of the French book title, Philips also asked Paula when he wanted to invite her to a Brahms concert.
In principle, the film anticipates the taboo topic of the time of the relationship between an older woman and a younger man, which in 1968 helped the film The Graduation Test to a sensational success, albeit in less drastic images.
Reviews
"An elegantly staged film adaptation of a novel by Francoise Sagan that remains on the surface in the exploration of the conflicts, which is primarily based on the remarkable play of the main actors."
Paradoxically, the greatest advantage of the film is also its greatest disadvantage: Ingrid Bergman, at 46 at the height of her life, is too attractive to plausibly portray the problematic situation of an aging woman.
“Based on the sagan novel, it is traditionally designed as cultivated entertainment. Resigned nihilism. For adults with reservation. "
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Awards
- 1961 : Awarded Best Actor to Anthony Perkins at the XIV Cannes Film Festival .
literature
- Lawrence J. Quirk : Ingrid Bergman and Her Films. Translated from American English by Marie Margarete Giese. Goldmann, Munich 1982, pp. 136-141, ISBN 3-442-10214-6 .
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Françoise Sagan : Aimez-vous Brahms? Reclam, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-009238-5 .
- German edition: Do you love Brahms? Translated from the French by Helga Treichl. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-404-12627-0 .
Web links
- Do you love Brahms? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Do you love Brahms? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 21, 2016 .
- ↑ cf. Ingrid Bergman / Alan Burgess: Ingrid Bergman / Ma Vie (Ingrid Bergman / My Story), Éditions Fayard, Paris, 1980, ISBN 2-213-00907-4
- ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 580/1961