Why has the film not had more exposure? It was absolutely amazing! Set at the end of WW2 this Graham Greene novel centres around a bored wife (Deborah Kerr) of a civil servant (Christopher Lee in a very sympathetic role) who meets a writer one night at a party at their home and begins to fall for him. The affair itself is brief but the most interesting part of the film is what causes the affair to end and whether the reasons initially conjured up by the male protagonist are in fact correct. The more I see of Deborah Kerr on the big screen the more I cannot deny that she really is a brilliant actress, and so versatile. I have never seen Van Johnson in anything before and found his character to be the most interesting. The great thing about this film is that the two leads were totally complex and had a huge backlog of history about each of them as opposed to showing us nothing of substance. I really adored this movie and found the end heart-breaking. I am just amazed that this classic romance is never mentioned in top 100 romantic movie lists when something like 'Love Story' features heavily. Amazing.
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