Almost Perfect Affair is a 1979 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie about the Cannes Film Festival about an affair between a filmmaker and a producer's wife, set during the film festival. It stars Keith Carradine and Monica Vitti. Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ... Michael Ritchie (November 28, 1938 - April 16, 2001) was an American film director Michael Ritchie is also the name of an English college student in East Sussex who is famous for writing three novels for teenagers about teenage life. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Keith Carradine Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an Academy Award-winning actor born into a family of actors. ... Actress Monica Vitti in Michelangelo Antonionis LAvventura (1960). ...
Keith Carradine Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an Academy Award-winning actor born into a family of actors. ... Actress Monica Vitti in Michelangelo Antonionis LAvventura (1960). ... Anna Maria Horsford (born March 6, 1948 in Harlem, New York, USA) is an African-American television and film actress. ...
Set in the midst of the frenzied goings-on of the Cannes Film Festival (many sequences were actually filmed during the 1976 event), this romantic comedy concerns the relationship between a young idealistic American film-maker (Keith Carradine) and the beautiful wife of a powerful Italian producer (Monica Vitti).
It strives to be both an Altmanesque lampoon of the film-industry during the Cannes Film Festival, but lacks authenticity, detail, atmosphere, wit or satiric nous; and a Euro-romance, drenched in a soupily romantic score and TV-movie soft-focus visuals.
Any Henry James-like tension, ironic or otherwise, in a plot featuring an 'innocent' American abroad in decadent Europe is ruined by Carradine's equine cloddishness and Vitti in Anna Magnani Italian blowsy mode.
Dick Anthony Williams, playing an unashamedly exploitative deal-maker, seizes upon Raymond's film and immediately changes the title to a much more marketable "Shoot Me Before I Kill Again." Vallone's producer character battles a never-seen director over cuts made to their film, and Bernstein delivers an unexpectedly (but not inappropriately) touching scene which sympathizes with producers.
AnAlmostPerfectAffair, in its early scenes, suggests a stranger in a strange land tone not dissimilar to Sofia Coppola's recent Lost in Translation.
AnAlmostPerfectAffair was made near the height of director Michael Ritchie's brief flirtation with near-greatness.
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