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Bookmark this pageAn Almost Perfect Affair (1979)
Director: Michael Ritchie
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Ritchie's last 'personal' (and, for that matter, interesting) movie before he went blandly commercial is, like his early work, a study in the ethics of competitive rivalry. Carradine (as fine as ever) plays a self-centred independent American film-maker who meets with cute Vitti during the Cannes Film Festival. How honest are his proclamations of love? Hard to tell, given that she is the wealthy ex-actress wife of Italian producer Vallone. A strangely disenchanted romantic comedy, the film impresses with its strong performances and its ambivalent attitude towards the emotional deceptions of its lovers, while there's a bonus for buffs in the in-jokes and documentary cameo-shots of various directors caught on location along the Croisette.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Ritchie
Producer: Terry Carr
Cast: Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone, Christian De Sica, Dick Anthony Williams, Sergio Leone, Farah Fawcett, George Peppard, Margaux Hemingway full cast
Duration: 93 mins
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