Adult romantic comedy

nancydsf

Whenever I want to watch a "feel-good" movie, I put on "Indiscreet." Six fine actors, headed by two of movies' best -- Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman -- and directed by one of our finest directors, Stanley Donen. Grant's entrance ("The door was open") immediately announces he is "Prince Charming." How could Bergman's "Anna Kalman" not be smitten? It's clear they're both smitten, but she must take the initiative. Their mutual attraction is handled subtly. The next most romantic scene, beautifully understated, is in the elevator as they return to her flat after the ballet. In it they don't exchange a word.

Bergman looks stunning in a marvelous wardrobe of designer dresses, suits and furs, especially a gold evening gown she wears to a dinner dance. Before leaving for that dance she utters the best line in the film: "How dare he make love to me and not be a married man!"

Donen ends the film with a brilliant scene, brilliantly played -- almost an operatic duet -- which ends with Phillip tells Anna, "You'll like being married, really you will" as they are seated on a couch in exactly the same position as Nicky Ferrante and Terry McKay in Leo McCarey's "An Affair to Remember." A nice homage by Donen.

score 10/10

nancydsf 28 September 2013

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