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Directed by SIDNEY J. FURIE Screenplay by BARRY SANDIER...
Directed by MARTIN SCORSESE Screenplay by PAUL SCHRADER...
...drain. He follows Jackson back to her home near London, where the husband, a pulp-fiction writer, dying to discover whether or not they are having an affair, invites the young man to stay with them indefinitely. In setting up this menage-a-trois, the husband, working on a screenplay about middle-aged infidelity, eventually brings about the events he supposedly fears: his wife, who had committed no infidelities in Baden, seduces the "poet" and then runs off with...
...screenplay by Thomas Wiseman from his novel of the same name, with the collaboration of playwright Tom Stoppard, is not as subtly revealing of character as the direction and editing. In fact much of it is irritatingly banal--the few funny moments, presumably contributed by Stoppard, seem like the last-minute contrivances. Comic relief is pretty welcome during this film, though, no matter how forced it may be. When the wife and the gigolo finally fulfill their artificially arranged estiny by running off together, the husband tries to track them down. He notices that a mysterious car has been following...
...Screenplay by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT, JEAN GRUAULT and SUZANNE SCHIFFMAN...