Once upon a love affair (II)

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
USA, 1957; 119m
It would be a tragedy if the world remembered An Affair to Remember as nothing more than the movie Meg Ryan cries over in Sleepless in Seattle. McCarey’s sumptuous remake of his classic LOVE AFFAIR, working from a virtually identical script, is one of the great Hollywood romances, as elegant as it is bursting with emotion, and as deft as one can imagine in its mixture of laughter and tears. This time, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are the couple, and they bring the story to a completely different pitch from the one set by Boyer and Dunne: graceful restraint followed by emotional outpouring.

An Affair to Remember

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