![]() (The dialogue is superbly written in this story. The movie doesn’t start out “Catholic.” It starts when the two gorgeous people meet on an ocean liner on its way from Europe to New York and engage in some witty and subtly provocative repartee. I would love to know if any of you reading this have noticed these things also. In this version, the movie looks fine, but it is displayed in a small rectangle on a bigger screen.Īfter multiple viewings, I realized only recently how big a part the Catholic faith plays in transforming the flirtatious attraction of the two gorgeous, amoral characters into love, the kind of real love that waits, and is willing to work and to sacrifice, and seeks its consummation in lifelong marriage and children. In this version, the movie is reversed and the colors faded out. ![]() Right now, probably to avoid being taken down for copyright infringement, two weird versions are uploaded on Youtube. I’ve watched the movie several times more over the years since then, mostly in less than ideal versions on Youtube. Then I might have seen it on a small black and white screen when old movies were played on late night TV during my teen years, when I should have been sleeping and instead was making sure I’d be be late for school the next morning by staying up way past midnight once again. I think I first watched An Affair to Remember with my mother and sisters on a big screen in one of the now-long-gone movie palaces with names like "Bijou" or "Roxie" soon after it first came out. But many people who love it-as I do-probably don’t notice the many Catholic elements that are part of the story. An Affair to Remember (1957) is many people’s favorite romantic movie.
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