an affair to remember is a timeless chickflick. there is deborah kerr opposite cary grant, actors who should've won but didn't win, Oscars. but the lack of a naked golden trophy in their mantelpieces does not reduce the shimmer in their star powers, bringing me to this classic, a remake of a pre-war (1930's) drama called love affair starring irene dunne and charles boyer. the lead characters who are both engaged to wealthy partners, bumped into each other on a cruise across europe and fell in love after the scenes in the mediterranean. upon docking in new york, they promised to meet at the empire street building after six months. on the day in question, the girl got hit by a car then cut to frames with really talented children singing, to the melodrama in her apartment. it's absolutely yuck and shiver with the sweetness of candy floss in full technicolor. very implausible even before the age of e-mails and cellphones.
nicky's (grant) got to wonder what ever the hell happened to the beloved. there should be ways to communicate. the telephone has already been invented and the post office was a force of reckoning. but it's a movie, a medium utterly devoid of realism and wrapped in the bubble of improbability.
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