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...evening With Yves Montand...
French Troubadour Yves Montand has a bedroom voice in a truck driver's body. His throaty baritone undresses every noun, verb and parenthetical clause that comes slithering past his lips. With hips cocked, eyes squinted against some inner sunburst of passion, and hands expressively molding the air, Montand is one of the most potent love potions ever poured across the footlights. But Montand has more than sex appeal buttoned under his dark brown open-necked shirt. He is a one-man theater of the performing arts, an expert mimic, a clown, a barometric actor who can shift moods, weather...
Instead he gets back to Ingrid, who, after wasting a lot of expensive gasoline and misting into a lot of high-priced caviar, gets back to Montand. Because everyone in the film registers constant anguish, Goodbye Again will be called a woman's picture-but not, one may lay odds, by many women...
...important scenes in French movies took place in bedrooms, but in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic this is no longer true-except for Brigitte Bardot films, and Brigitte, of course, is only for tourists. The most important cars are a forceful but overstated Facel-Vega in which Yves Montand takes Ingrid Bergman for drives, and a giddy Triumph roadster in which Anthony Perkins takes Ingrid for drives. The starring restaurant, to which Perkins takes Ingrid for meals, naturally is Maxim's. But the Deauville Casino does creditably in the supporting role of the place where Montand, consumed with...
Goodbye Again is the film version of Françoise Sagan's novel, Aimez-Vous Brahms. In it, Montand is required to pretend that he is a middle-aged trucking executive who, after five years as Ingrid's lover, prefers to spend his time with younger models. Ingrid has a lugubrious affair with Perkins, a spoiled young loafer, after he lures her to a concert with the mysteriously seductive incantation, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" There is a letup in the mooning when Perkins' exasperated boss asks him what the trouble is. "I just realized I've never...