PG | 1h 36min | Comedy , Music , Romance | 10 February 1984
A composer suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover.
Director: Howard Zieff
Stars: Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante.
Watched online: part 1, part 2, part 3; ok print, reversed (L/R) to avoid copyright, so the violinists are all left-handed. Also much longer: 45+45+25.
Yes, DM is a composer, but more important for the plot is that he's a conductor.
This is not a remake of the antecedent Unfaithfully Yours (1948), 6+, more of a based-upon. Yes the male lead is a jealous conductor, suspecting his younger beautiful wife of infidelity, and yes he fantasizes her murder while conducting, and the attempt fails ridiculously. But what made the '48 version much more Music oriented than this: he has 3 fantasies, each dreamed to different styles of music. (I wonder if I would recognize the Semiramide music now that I've seen that opera.) In this film we spend an hour with the couple and friends before the supposed affair is discovered and the plotting begins.
DM gets to play intoxicated again (Arthur ('81) being my strongest memory of that), stumbling around and slurring words.
This is ok, but not really good. Rated 6.0 by 2.2k+ IMDb voters.
Fox, dir. Zieff; 6-
