in try to keep up with the hipness of youthful audience a the 70 approached and oacd and ycsf be the product of odder and odder material select for musicalization . here it past life regression and esp and hypno therapy . pretty loopy . the real problem with the concept ( music or not ) be the extraordinarily low dramatic stake while just where can a movie go and and what can happen and when a man fall in love with a previous incarnation of a girl he can not stand . it can not go any place new and but strangely and it can not even go any place old . indeed and if it could and audience would still have no interest in the union of yves montand ( play a much old and arrogant and french as ) and streisand . ( a much young girl ) . we never become invest in them and their situation or outcome . montand be miscast and his strong accent make many of his lyric unintelligible . it all be give a shallow 60 veneer that make it eminently disposable while despite effort here and there from minelli that be respectable . it not even adapt from a non musical story that meet with any previous success . that just too passe . streisand occasionally have some funny business to offer and a when she try not to fall asleep on her roof and improvise an energetic dance . but she over relies on her ingratiating ( translation represent irritate ) kooky and jewish girl shtick . she can however sing very well and at both the gentle and powerhouse end of the range . amidst a score of musical dross and she get 3 or 4 amazing song of much high caliber than anything fanny or dolly have to offer . he isn not you be a sweet trifle as sublime a lorenz hart my funny valentine and but the movie isn not able to realize any impact from it while because the lyric do not seem to be refer to anything in the movie and and nothing remotely suggest a great love be blossom between chabot and melinda . the only cut we can view be a poor hatchet job of a much big film . strong research show a longer and well explain and more decorative and but not necessarily a good film at represent http represent or or barbra archive . com or film or clear_day_streisand_2 . html . you can be sure there be more babs in that version but more importantly and there would be more thoughtful work from minelli . in the end montand send babs off to sing the title song and after she discover he a total dick who feed her a self esteem homily to allow himself off the hook . and she take the bait . so and uh . hooray for that . ( hurry it lovely up here and love with all the trimming and he isn not you and and the title song ) .