A Business Affair

A Business Affair

Infobox Film
name = A Business Affair


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director = Charlotte Brandstrom
producer = Executive producers: Willi Bär and Martha Wansborough
writer = Charlotte Brandstrom , Lucy Flannery (dialogue) Barbara Skelton (novel), William Stadiem (screenplay)
narrator =
starring = Carole Bouquet, Christopher Walken and Jonathan Pryce
music = Didier Vasseur
cinematography = Willy Kurant
editing = Laurence Méry-Clark
distributor =
released = France: 16 March 1994
runtime = 102 minutes
country = UK , FRA
language = English
budget =
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website =
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imdb_id = 0109352

"A Business Affair" is a 1994 romantic comedy film directed by Charlotte Brandstrom and starring Carole Bouquet. Christopher Walken and Jonathan Pryce. The film was produced by the United Kingdom in coordination with France, Germany and Spain and much of the film was shot in London. On one film poster of the film, Caroline Bouqet is featured with her arms wrapped around Big Ben with the two men aside of her.

Plot

The film is centred around the life of Kate Swallow (Carole Bouquet) and her susceptibility with falling in love with different men. At the beginning of the film she is in love with a famous writer named Alec Bolton (Jonathan Pryce), who discards any intentions she has of writing a novel herself as nonsense, strongly discouraging her. Later falls in love with a man named Vanni Corso (Christopher Walken) who is the publisher of the firm which Alec writes books for, and she leaves Alec for Vanni. Kate later finds out that Vanni also doesn't think highly of her writing abilities yet he had strung her along. Gradually both men change their attitudes as they vainly struggle to win her affections.

Walken has a scene where he is able to perform his trademark tango routine.

Cast

*Carole Bouquet as Kate Swallow
*Jonathan Pryce as Alec Bolton
*Christopher Walken as Vanni Corso
*Sheila Hancock as Judith
*Anna Manahan as Bianca
*Fernando Guillén Cuervo as Ángel
*Tom Wilkinson as Bob
*Marisa Benlloch as Carmen
*Roger Brierley as Barrister
*Bhasker Patel as Jaboul
*Paul Bentall as Drunken Man
*Allan Corduner as Dinner Guest
*Marian McLoughlin as Dinner Guest
*Miguel De Ángel as Spanish Taxi Driver
*Christopher Driscoll as Policeman
*Beth Goddard as Student
*Fergus O'Donnell as Student
*Richard Hampton as Doctor
*Togo Igawa as a Japanese Golfer

Release

The film premiered in France on 16 March 1994, later screening in Germany on 5 May 1994 and Spain on 22 July 1994. It didn't premiere in the States until a year and a half later finally showing in New York City on 3 November 1995.

The UK version ran for 102 minutes but the US version has several scenes censored, particularly some of the scenes with nudity and ran for 98 minutes.

External links

*imdb title|id=0109352|title=A Business Affair


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