Where to begin? Pretty much everything about this movie is absolutely dreadful. The plot is a shallow fairy-tale with the most improbable twists and turns, and its central theme - that where true loves reigns, age difference simply does not matter - is just plain silly. By way of proof we have a recent high school graduate fall in love with and marry a 43 year old multi-millionaire from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and 40 year old Liv Ullmann fall in love and marry 22 year old Edward Albert, by coincidence the son of another multi-millionaire. All of that is bad enough, but what really put me off is the way Ullmann - an obviously sensitive and intelligent woman - is shown as being overcome and indeed pushed around by a creepy guy with no personality who grabs at her to "help her undress" and is just generally obnoxious in his self-satisfied smugness. Ullmann looks attractive enough to make her a plausible love object for a 22 year-old, but the other way around? Goodness! Her acting is at least better than that of the rest of the cast, which is really not saying much. To round it all off Gene Kelly gives a hammy performance as Ullmann's ex-husband. So - terrible on every level: plot, acting, message. Zero stars if that option were available.
