Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.
Acting
Anouk Aimée's devastating restraint—every glance is a secret.
Cinematography
Rome never looked more gorgeous or more claustrophobic.
Direction
Lumet turns a marriage into a psychological thriller without thrills.
Director
Sidney Lumet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lumet shot this between The Sea Gull and The Anderson Tapes, making it one of his most overlooked 'in-between' projects. The Rome locations were filmed during actual fashion week chaos.
Released the same year as Divorce Italian Style's Oscar win, this flopped partly because audiences wanted their Italian marital dysfunction with comedy, not this suffocating dread.
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