

An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Cinematography
Rome looks impossibly golden and seductive throughout.
Acting
Scacchi smolders; Curtis deserved better material.
Direction
Kurys captures the intoxication of film sets beautifully.

Director
Diane Kurys
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Diane Kurys fought hard for final cut; the film was re-edited without her for some markets, which she called 'emotional butchery.'
This was part of a wave of 1980s Euro-American co-productions trying to recapture 1960s art-house romance energy—mostly unsuccessfully.
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