Performances from veterans Vanessa Redgrave and Anna Massey as sisters-in-law wrestling with responsibility for an elderly parent. The proceedings are enlivened by gently luminous This impulsive act sets in motionĪ chain of events that thoroughly disrupt Dana's life: She falls in love at first sight with architect Sean (Steven Dillane), then finds to her horror that he and his wife (Glynis Barber) are staying at the same guest house where she's meeting Alex. Possessed by the need to return the clip, Dana postpones her trip to London, where she's scheduled to meet her fiancee, Alex (Michael Brandon), for a pre-honeymoon vacation, and goes to Paris. She also leaves Dana in possession ofĪ jeweled dress clip, one of a pair made for her by her American lover. On a business trip to Israel, Dana Howard (Victoria Foyt) encounters an older French woman (Aviva Marks) in a café she tells Dana a sad story about the great love she lost in the aftermath of World War II. and then makes a hard left into the twilight zone. But surprise of surprises: There's also a rather engaging plot that takes off from the melancholy (and much ripped-off) CITIZEN KANE anecdote about the girl in the white dress - Jaglom is a fervent admirer of the late Orson Welles Looking vaguely discontented? Well, there's plenty of that here. Do Henry Jaglom movies make you squirm? All that meandering, aimless talk going around in earnest circles, all those materially overprivileged sorts whining about what ails them spiritually, all those long, long shots of people sitting around plush rooms

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