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A Certain Smile

1958, Movie, NR, 105 mins

A Certain Smile: Review

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Beautiful photography, fantastic scenery, very glossy, but still essentially trite in concept and story line, A CERTAIN SMILE tells the story of a young woman who betrays her friend and has an affair with her friend's husband, a much older man. Carere (in her first role) falls out with beau Dillman. His uncle, Brazzi, invites her to stay on the Riviera for a week. Despite the fact that Brazzi's wife, Fontaine, has been very nice to her, Carere takes up with the aging Casanova and later follows him to his Paris home. Once there, she learns that it was little more than a dalliance for him and that he would just like to forget he ever met her. Fontaine and Carere have one heavy scene followed by Fontaine's confrontation with her cheating husband. The fade-out comes, and the feeling is that Dillman and Carere will eventually unite. The book by Francoise Sagan was much hotter, but the 1958 Production Code prohibited most of the sex, so what happens on the screen is mild by any year's standards. The best part of the movie is the photography, which must have sent the tourist business up by 500 percent. Nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Costume Design and Best Song "A Certain Smile" by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. leave a comment
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