An Affair to Remember (1957) Directed by Carey Grant.
On a long haul flight from I had an opportunity to watch this movie while fellow Indians were busy watching Bollywood commercial movies with everything mixed including the music and dances.
This film has to be probably one of the best romantic movies I've ever watched, even above the classic like Sound of Music or even Gone With The Wind. I was intrigued by this movie how it would end, unlike the Indian movies in which the plot and outcome are well known happy ending. Needless to say, with the whole "shipboard romance" aspect of it, and the promise to meet again in six months at top of the Empire State Building of all places, I quickly became glued to it. The scene on the French Riviera with Nickie's grandmother playing the piano, oh God is it beautiful! Cary Grant is so debonair and suave and Deborah Kerr is so ravishing and stunningly beautiful, that it always demands repeated viewing from me (at least three times a year). Seeing this film always makes me wonder if something like the kind of relationship that Nickie had with Terry in the movie would really be a possibility in real life. Would and could someone actually leave the person they were engaged to marry a complete and total stranger that they just met days ago? I'd like to think that it could, as I always thought love is spontaneous like music, but then mots people are nothing but hopelessly romantic. The final scene always tears my heart out, no matter how many times I've seen it, I'm always sobbing. Watching this movie around Valentine's Day (even if you are single) is always a treat. It allows our fantasies to take flight so that we may think that we are actually the one meeting our beloved atop the Empire State Building in a thunderstorm. Rating 5*
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