- Actors: Christopher Walken, Carole Bouquet, Jonathan Pryce
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Force Video
- DVD Release Date: 4 Jun 2007
- Run Time: 98 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000VWUITU
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 134,727 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: This romantic comedy concerns Kate Swallow (Carole Bouquet), who works in a French department store to help support her husband Alec (Jonathan Pryce), an egocentric novelist who insists on peace and quiet when he writes. Kate has literary aspirations herself, but Alec complains that the clacking of the keys on her laptop is too much of a distraction for him (he prefers to write longhand). Alec's editor Vanni Corso (Christopher Walken) has high hopes for his next book, which needs to sell well if his company is to pull itself out of the red. While Vanni is interested in Alec's novel, he also becomes interested in Alec's wife, and Kate becomes quite taken with Vanni as well. In time she leaves Alex to pursue a relationship with Vanni and work on her own book. Kate's novel turns out to do quite well indeed, but there's trouble in paradise when Vanni tells her he's not so sure her second novel is going to go anywhere. Business Affair was loosely based on the real-life literary and romantic travails of author Barbara Skelton. ...A Business Affair ( Astucias de mujer ) ( D'une Femme A L'autre )
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This is a marvelous movie with stellar performances by Christopher Walken, Jonathan Pryce, and the exquisitely beautiful Carole Bouquet. It is the story of a woman (Carole Bouquet), who models for a living and is married to an egotistical, self-absorbed Englishman (Jonathan Pryce), who is a well known writer and highly acclaimed literary lion. Christopher Walken plays the role of an American publisher, who is looking to sign up some English authors for the American market. He wines and dines Pryce, who ends up signing a contract with him.
Meanwhile, Pryce is suffering from writer's block, while his long suffering wife is typing out her own manuscript at breakneck speed. Pryce speaks to his wife, whom he treats as little as little more than a trophy, contemptuosly about her first literary effort. She ends up giving her finished manuscript to Walken, who likes it and agrees to publish it. This angers Pryce, who actually demands that Walken not publish it, so enraged is he by his wife having had the temerity to have a thought that does not revolve around him.
Walken meets with the wife, and what he sees is a beautiful, warm, intelligent, and articulate woman, who is delighted to be treated as other than an appendage of her husband. They begin a passionate affair that would have far reaching consequences, as she discovers that Walken and Pryce are brothers under the skin. This relationship takes her on an odyssey that will eventually see her come into her own as a person. This is essentially the story of her liberation as a woman.
Format:DVD
This 1992 movie is an excellent example of two of the world's best actors in their prime. This dark romantic comedy involves a complex tangle between the two of them and the femme fatale wife played by Carole Bouquet. The interaction between the characters demonstrates admirably the skill and versatility of all involved. It may be nearly 20 years old, but a film to be highly recommended as a story which is timeless.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER...
19 Aug 2001
This is a marvelous movie with wonderful performances by Christopher Walken, Jonathan Pryce, and the exquisitely beautiful Carole Bouquet. It is the story of a woman (Carole Bouquet), who is married to an egotistical, self absorbed Englishman (Jonathan Pryce), who is a well known writer and highly acclaimed literary figure. Christopher Walken plays the part of an Italian American publisher who is looking to sign up some English authors for the American market. He wines and dines Pryce, who ends up signing with him.
Meanwhile, Pryce is suffering from writer's block, while his long suffering wife is typing out her own manuscript. Pryce speaks to his wife contemptuosly about her effort. She gives her finished manuscript to Walken, who likes it and agrees to publish her book. This angers Pryce, who actually tells Walken not to publish it, so enraged is he by his wife actually having a thought that does not evolve around him. Walken meets with the wife and sees her as the beautiful, warm, intelligent, and articulate woman that she is.
Delighted to be treated like a normal person, rather than an appendage of her husband, Walken and Bouquet begin an affair that culminates in divorce from Pryce and marriage to Walken. She finds out that once married, however, Walken basically expects her world to revolve around him. In essence, Pryce and Walken are basically one and the same. She ultimately leaves Walken, writes another book, and becomes a best selling author in her own right and a woman of independent means. She comes into her own as a person, and is no longer another's doormat. This is the story of her liberation as a woman.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A good movie about A Business Affair
13 Feb 2000
I saw this movie for Christopher Walken. But it's not his movie. It's Carole Bouquet's movie. She plays the main character, and it with her character that we identify and empathize with.
I saw this labelled as a comedy, but it's not. Its a very real human drama... sometimes lighthearted, sometimes not so light... but always a real drama. And I cared what happened to the characters.
In the end, the characters didn't all act the way I wanted them to. But it's not my movie. And I realize that it ends the way it should. It's a movie about a woman who is stuck in a man's world. Who faces, and loves, men who want to keep her in her parents' era. But she wants a life of her own... and in the end it's a movie about her liberation.
If you are looking for another good creepy Christopher Walken movie, then you may be looking in the wrong place. Because this is a very good movie, but it's not a psycho-thriller. It a human story.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A film that transcends the mere anecdote feature!
27 Aug 2007
Format:DVD
Carole Bouquet is still one of the most beautiful actress ever born. Her face is a real Symphony; and her alluring fits perfectly with this role: she is a gorgeous model happily married with a talented but neglected novelist, he is possessively neurotic and needs her as a child needs her mother, but by these destiny's trickeries she has the chance to meet the editor of the firm in which his husband is hired, an entrepreneur, ambitious who is immediately attracted to her. She will be the driving force in this formidable comedy that will make us to reflect about a question without answer: Does the ideal man exist for such woman? .
Some lines are particularly incisive and acidic in this clever plot, a brilliant film measure by measure.
Some lines are particularly incisive and acidic in this clever plot, a brilliant film measure by measure.
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