“Everything about it is bewildering, from the utter obscurity of the script to the presence of Ingrid Bergman, Mel Ferrer and Jean Marais as stars. And the fact that Jean Renoir was its director is the ultimate oddity. How this fiasco could have happened is difficult to explain. […] Even so, there is no explanation for the horrible acting done by most of the frantic performers […]. It appears that M. Renoir was undecided whether this was a romantic drama or a slapstick farce.”Bosley Crowther: Screen: French Import; Parisian Film Shown at the Paramount. In: The New York Times, 30. März 1957.
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“The movie is about something else – about Bergman’s rare eroticism, and the way her face seems to have an inner light on film. […] Although the movie has serious undertones […], Truffaut was right that it is about sex, not politics. […] The closing scene is a masterpiece.”Roger Ebert: Elena and Her Men. In: Chicago Sun-Times, 3. Februar 1987.
