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Love Affair
Love Affair
8.1
/10
1,987 Ratings

LOVE AFFAIR

Directed by Leo McCarey
United States, 1939
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Synopsis

Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for NYC. Though they are both involved with other people, they intend to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building—until the hand of fate throws their affair tragically off course.

Synopsis

Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for NYC. Though they are both involved with other people, they intend to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building—until the hand of fate throws their affair tragically off course.

Our take

A transcendent, tear-jerking romance from Hollywood’s golden age, Love Affair was crafted by one of the greatest filmmakers to ever work in America, Leo McCarey. Nominated for Best Picture at the 1939 Academy Awards, this timeless classic truly proved to be an affair to remember.