The Woman in Red
THE WOMAN IN RED (15)
D: Gene Wilder
Orion (Victor Drai)
US 1984
86 mins
Comedy
W: Gene Wilder [based on the screenplay "Pardon mon
Affair: Un Eléphant ça Trompe Enormement" by Jean-Loup Dabadie & Yves Robert]
DP: Fred Schuler
Ed: Christopher Greenbury
Mus: John Morris; Stevie Wonder
Gene Wilder (Theodore Pierce), Kelly LeBrock
(Charlotte), Charles Grodin (Buddy), Joseph Bologna (Joe), Judith Ivey (Didi Pierce), Gilda Radner (Ms. Milner)
Remake of a French farce which follows much in the
footsteps of Blake Edwards' 1979 sex-comedy 10 (qv).
En route to work, a married man spots a beautiful
woman in a red dress and becomes obsessed with the thought of taking her to bed.
Tacky, tawdry and dated, the film is memorable only
for three reasons; the first being Stevie Wonder's Oscar-winning song "I Just Called To Say I Love You", the second is in it's homage to Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt uplift from The
Seven Year Itch, and the third being Kelly LeBrock getting out of bed naked, covering her boobs but not her muff. Weird.
5/10
