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
Peter Coyote
Steve Elliott
Greta Scacchi
Jane Steiner
Jamie Lee Curtis
Susan Elliott
Claudia Cardinale
Julia Steiner
Peter Riegert
Michael Pozner
John Berry
Harry Steiner
Vincent Lindon
Bruno Schlosser
Jean Pigozzi
Dante Pizani
Konstantin Aleksandrov
De Vitta
Jean-Claude de Goros
Sandro
Michele Melega
Paolo
Jole Silvani
Olga
Jérôme Deschamps
La Veillee Actor
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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