No Place Like Movies at Home: Love Affair

Finally! We are at the end of the mini marathon of movies I did last weekend! I don't think this feeling is going to last long because we are on the cusp of another weekend, and while I have some plans, I don't have enough to keep me from watching movies.

In a previous post I mentioned that 1939 was one of the best years for movies. That still holds up with another movie from 1939 Love Affair.

Most of the time when movies talk of love affairs, they are usually showing the starring couple breaking up toward the beginning of the movie. Through the movie you watch as one person falls then thrives after the person having the affair leaves. Then the person who did the leaving thrives and then falls. This story is a little bit different. Our starring couple, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, are both actually the people who leave. While you really can't say any "real" cheating happened, this is a 30's film mind you, they did agree to leave the people they were going to marry to be with each other. While sailing across the ocean to be with their loves, Dunne and Boyer meet and all in the love on the ship. However, they are unsure if they really are in love with each other or in love with the idea of leaving the people they supposedly love. They agree to go home like normal, break up with their significant others, and then work on the dreams they shared with each other. After six months have passed they would meet on top of the Empire State Building and start their lives together.

Now whether or not they actually do this I am not going to say. That is where you need to watch the movie for yourself. I will say that it makes some interesting turns and you meet some interesting people. I will also say that this is not a cookie cutter movie. What I mean is the end may end up where you thought but the journey there is a bit different. However, if you are looking to watch a movie that is sweet and will pull at your heartstrings a little, this would be the one to watch.