Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

AbundantDay I enjoyed this movie and although it was lengthy, it kept my attention. The locations were beautiful, giving the movie greater charm. This was a loving couple with a happy marriage and family. The wife was very supportive and understanding. They seemed to have it all, an active social life, friends and a comfortable lifestyle. But changes in the husband's career, as well as interfering friends and family, created challenges. I agree that some of the acting was overdone. I don't think it affected the movie greatly though and it didn't bother me. There were some great stars in supporting roles. I feel the story could have been improved in the end. I wanted to see a different outcome.

trudyr_1999 I had wanted to see this version for many years, as I love the novel, but I didn't expect it to be very good--and my expectations were met! The actors are fine, but the screenplay tampered with Fitzgerald's story in both major and minor ways, and didn't make it better. It's not really worth giving spoilers, but I'll just say that the movie is worth seeing if you just want to satisfy your curiosity, as I did. A much more faithful and better-quality adaptation is the 1985 Showtime miniseries, but I'm not sure if it's available anywhere. Regarding that version, I thought Mary Steenburgen, an actress I generally love, was miscast as Nicole, but Peter Strauss (as Dick) and the rest of the cast were very good. BTW, since I'm a Fitzgerald junkie, I'll share some background: Fitzgerald created Dick and Nicole as an amalgam of two couples: his friends Gerald and Sara Murphy, wealthy American expatriates in France; and himself and Zelda. The Divers' glamour, wealth, and charisma derive from Gerald and Sara, their neuroses from Scott and Zelda. (BTW, Zelda was not a millionairess, as one reviewer said--her family in Alabama was comfortably middle-class, not in the millionaire category.)

MarieGabrielle and stilted about this film, and its casting.Jason Robards who always delivers, just seems wooden and ineffectual as Dick Diver. Jennifer Jones as the ever desirable, but tragic Nicole Diver, just seems unsympathetic, even strident and cruel.The alcohol flows freely and the jet-set lifestyle is invoked by a humorous Tom Ewell, who sings the movies theme song at the beginning of this disjointed movie. (Tom Ewell is forever planted in my memory as Marilyn Monroes bumbling neighbor in "The Seven Year Itch", or as the silly, clichéd father in "State Fair") That being said, it almost seems as if the writers did not know how to treat the subject of psychoanalysis and mental illness. F Scott Fitgerald and his wife endured tragedy, his wife Zelda Sayre Fitgerald was diagnosed with schizophrenia while still in her 20's. She was delusional at times, and probably never walked around at all times looking like a John Robert Powers model,(as Jones does in this movie).It was 1962 after all, psychoanalysis was chic and stylish, so this film presents the illness as stylish and merely the effect of being rich and bored on the French Riviera. I wanted to like this film, but it is sorely dated and due for a remake. If nothing else it aptly demonstrates society stigma and misconceptions when portraying mental illness. No wonder there is still so much denial, if this film was considered an acceptable story of a physician and his wife in 1962. Worth seeing as a curiosity. 5/10.

4052ii As Freaud visited Ohio and had a cigar in his mouth and was asked, "Dr. Freud, you are smoking a cigar, do you remember what you said that meant?" At that time, Siggie said, sometimes a cigar is a cigar - ducking what he was smoking with a joke. Indicating that during laughter many transactions occur while avaoidance goes back for seconds.This movie has the beautiful and talented, Jill St. John, and some other actors. In my estimation, this is what a normal, or upper class family must deal with when they have a psychiatrist in the family who can only manufacture illness for personal success. The inelastic perversion of this profession is so clear is almost a comedy and would not be recommended for medical school.