Jack Lemmon, as always, plays his part well, but the sad part here is that I felt no real chemistry between Lemmon and Deneuve. She seems distant throughout, even aloof. Little spark is seen here, unlike Lemmon's other films with Shirley MacLaine, for instance. The supporting cast does a great job--Peter Lawford's boorish self-absorption and Sally Kellerman's total detachment from Lemmon as a spouse are top notch. And the drunken commuter train ride home is hilarious, if a bit out of place. The plot could also have used a bit of sharpening here--the premise of what seems to be roughly a 48 hour fling turning into two people leaving their marriages is kind of shaky, although the ending of the film does leave us with a bit of a question mark in terms of how it will all play out.
I'll watch it again for sure, but it does leave me feeling a bit empty when it's all said and done. It may not have taken much to flesh this out a bit more and make it more satisfying, including chemistry between the two leads.
I'll watch it again for sure, but it does leave me feeling a bit empty when it's all said and done. It may not have taken much to flesh this out a bit more and make it more satisfying, including chemistry between the two leads.