Monica Vitti

High Infidelity -- John Valentine, a cold-hearted businessman, is having an affair. He plots with his lover to murder his rich wife. They conspire to hire a contract killer and share her vast fortune. Unfortunately for them, the wife has her own plan.

L'Avventura -- A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni's penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love.

Director Michael Ritchie, well respected for his perceptive satirical jabs at American society in such diverse films as The Bad News Bears, Semi-Tough, and Smile, presents us with a charming love story while he delivers a gentle swipe at his own movie making industry. 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). Of course, they fall passionately in love...

A first-time director on his way to the Cannes Film Festival has his film seized by customs. To further complicate the situation, he becomes romantically involved with the wife of an Italian producer when she helps him to retrieve the movie.