

Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Acting
Bergman's brittle dignity versus Perkins' wounded-puppy intensity.
Cinematography
Paris at magic hour, all rain-slicked streets and hotel room shadows.

Director
Anatole Litvak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bergman was actually divorcing Roberto Rossellini during filming, lending her performance raw autobiographical pain.
The film was controversial for showing an older woman as sexually active—French critics called it 'depressing,' Americans called it 'brave.'