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Goodbye Darling

1946 · 115 min

A charming, bittersweet French comedy of manners that glides along on wit and a wistful undertow.

Directed by
Raymond Bernard
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Danielle Darrieux, Louis Salou, Gabrielle Dorziat
Overview
Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.

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Directed by
Raymond Bernard
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Danielle Darrieux, Louis Salou, Gabrielle Dorziat
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • class
  • deception
  • family
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Raymond Bernard
Written by
Jacques Companéez, Alex Joffé, Raymond Bernard, Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
Starring
Danielle Darrieux, Louis Salou, Gabrielle Dorziat, Alice Tissot, Jacques Berthier, Germaine Stainval, Rolande Forest, Palmyre Levasseur
Cinematography
Robert Lefebvre
Runtime
115 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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