Highlights:
Lowlights:
- Olivia de Havilland at 46 is a delight to see, and her acting is effortless.
- Those dresses of hers, designed by Christian Dior, are fabulous. The way she looked reminded me of the elegance and style of Jaqueline Kennedy.
- The shots on location in both Florence and Rome.
- The central question of the film, what to do about this girl (Yvette Mimieux) who is mentally 10 years old but has fallen in love, and the frank discussion her parents (de Havilland and Barry Sullivan) have about it, was the high point of the film.
- Seeing George Hamilton at 23, and before he became so tanned.
- There is something touching about the concept of true, innocent love.
Lowlights:
- A point in the plot - the mother not telling the young man or his family about her daughter's condition - at first seems just very odd or a plot hole, and then it just keeps growing until it undermines the whole movie. The ending is absurd. If it had confronted the moment of reckoning that must eventually come (for both daughter and mother), this could have been a great film.