Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.
The Woman in Red is a light, frothy romantic comedy remake of the French film Pardon Mon Affaire, offering little beyond its premise. The plot is thin and repetitive — a series of increasingly desperate and farcical schemes by a married man obsessed with a model, without much depth or escalation. Gene Wilder is charming and watchable, lending the film more warmth than it deserves, but the supporting cast is largely underused. Cinematographically it is unremarkable, with San Francisco providing pleasant backdrops but no distinctive visual language. Its novelty is low — it is a by-the-numbers remake following a well-worn infatuation comedy formula, remembered mostly for Stevie Wonder's 'I Just Called to Say I Love You.' The ending is predictable and tidy, resolving the moral complications neatly without much earned weight.