6/10
CASABLANCA (1942). It’s one of those films you should have seen at some time in your life, although many quotes and scenes may be familiar. I’m not sure it deserves its status as one of the greatest films of all time, but for sentimentalists and Woody Allen, it will always occupy a special niche. Bogart and Bergman are an improbable couple (a 16 year age gap for a start), and the whole film feels artificial, but my biggest beef is the cinema cliché that a love that cannot be realised is more romantic than one that survives. Call me curmudgeon.
