Product: Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Rating: 5.0
Musical farce with flair
This is a movie about musicians that even a professional musician can respect. There's plenty of over-the-top silliness, but none of the usual Hollywood technical fakery. Particularly wonderful scenes: Richard Libertini enacting the murder of Desdemona upon a hapless eggplant; Dudley Moore's murder-fantasy sequence; Moore conducting Armand Assante in a pitiless, pell-mell rush through a concerto; the unraveling of the murder fantasy; and, finally, Libertini hotly cursing Moore's shoes. The best scene of all for this musician: Moore and Assante playing "Czardas" as a violin duet, Moore leaping around the restaurant while furiously trying to spear Assante with his bow.