The making of a philanderer. The degenerative process begins unforeseeably, one morning, with the chance sighting of an unknown woman in red who steps into a powerful updraft, and from there it leads the moonstruck hero downward into a sticky residuum of 1950s bourgeois guilt. The search for laughs never takes director Yves Robert very far from reality, and yet he secures some very good ones (for instance, in the scene of the hero's attempted courting astride a feisty, unmanageable stallion). Anny Duperey, as the Other Woman, is indisputably a terrific temptation -- very classy, poised, graceful (a big scene: her gazellelike bounding around her apartment to pick up the telltale clothes strewn willy-nilly about the floor). With Jean Rochefort, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, and Daniele Delorme. (1977) — Duncan Shepherd
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