........ with magnificent music (Chopin and Morricone), picturesque locations (Parma and Venice), good-looking principals (Craig, Capucine, and Agren), and a real tear-jerker of a story. We have the driven artist, flitting from concert halls to recording studios, the devoted wife who sacrifices everything to further his career (though she is hardly very happy about it), and the sweet young thing who melts in his arms but comes to realise, like her predecessor, that only one person counts in his life: himself.
Though this summary is flippant, the three characters and their dilemmas are well explored and of the possible resolutions the one chosen by the writers is not blindingly obvious. And while much of the time the protagonists inhabit film world rather than real world, there is some nice satire of a nouveau-riche family lacking social graces who have filled a Renaissance mansion with expensive but horrible objects. Also a well shot, almost documentary, interlude on skydivers.
