Bye Bye Blues

A sentimental beauty; one of those How She and Her Kids Survived While Her Husband Was Away at the War movies in which the heroine, having changed much in her spouse's absence, not only doesn't know if her husband is still alive but wonders if she will still love him if he returns. Naturally, she also anguishes over whether she should give herself to the other man in her lonely life. No matter. BYE BYE BLUES is a wonderful, old-fashioned romance with a dreamy, sensual tone rarely found in movies nowadays. It is also a sheer pleasure to watch. That it's not mawkish at all is a credit to Canadian filmmaker Anne Wheeler, whose enchanting tale is based on her mother's ...