This beautifully filmed romantic comedy doesn't seem to have had any kind of release even though it features a few major international actresses. Even if it isn't a great film, it deserved at least an art house showing, if only for a week. It surrounds American journalist William Tepper overseas in Rome whose string of affairs with various women overlap and when he meets the woman of his dreams (Margot Kidder), he decides to let each of these women go gently through one last dinner. But they're all filled with mixed emotions, some more neurotic than the others, and it's surprising that Tepper makes it through this alive.
There's suicidal Marie-France Pisier, food throwing Virni Lisi (who is actually married) and the very troubled Karen Black who demands one last roll in the hay that Tepper should be wary of. Then there's constant interruptions about a bomb going off at the local Spanish embassy from the landlord, resulting in some very funny exchanges in Italian. Black's segment goes on far too long and is the most unpleasant of the film.
Obviously this was influenced by the hit musical "Nine" on Broadway (as well as its source, Fellini's "8 1/2") as Tepper seems to be living Guido Contini's nightmare that ended up as one of his films. The Italian locations are very beautiful but Tepper isn't exactly a very likeable leading man, and his women are written in a one dimensional vindictive way. However, I've seen worse films that had wide release which makes this one's obscurity a real mystery.
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