With a screen play by Evan Hunter (AKA Ed McBain, beloved author of the 87th Precinct novels) I was expecting something more thrilling than the passionate love affair of two married characters. Kim and Kirk, not married to each other, fall in love (or rather lust) while bringing their respective children to the school bus.
They embark in a passionate affair, but honestly it does not seem as if they have much to say to each other or much in common. He is a quirky architect, she an housewife (what else for a woman in the early 60's?)
Watch the awkward scene of the two of them on the beach, while the Kim character tries to dig out something from the past history of Kirk's. Even their first date is weird.
Both Kirk and Kim were in their prime and especially Kim, exuded sex appeal, so it's easy to see the attraction, but their affair did not seem a bright burning flame, apart from the novelty after years of predictable married life.
As such, the movie drags on a bit to establish their relationship and to install some doubts about the ending.
To be recommended if you are an avid Kim Novak fan. I saw many of her movies, but I cannot remember any other where she looked so good, so elegant, so fragile and so convincing in her part.
They embark in a passionate affair, but honestly it does not seem as if they have much to say to each other or much in common. He is a quirky architect, she an housewife (what else for a woman in the early 60's?)
Watch the awkward scene of the two of them on the beach, while the Kim character tries to dig out something from the past history of Kirk's. Even their first date is weird.
Both Kirk and Kim were in their prime and especially Kim, exuded sex appeal, so it's easy to see the attraction, but their affair did not seem a bright burning flame, apart from the novelty after years of predictable married life.
As such, the movie drags on a bit to establish their relationship and to install some doubts about the ending.
To be recommended if you are an avid Kim Novak fan. I saw many of her movies, but I cannot remember any other where she looked so good, so elegant, so fragile and so convincing in her part.