Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): a slight romantic comedy with a feminist bent , but one with no edge to it .
it turns out to be a conventional film filled with the usual clich ?
s and stock characters of this genre .
though it 's a well - written and well - acted fluff piece , it still does not have too much to say that is surprising .
it 's made for the gentle art - house set , those who do n't want something too disturbing to think about .
it 's about a critically successful writer husband , alec ( pryce ) , who is so self - absorbed that he 's threatened by his department store floor - walking model wife , kate ( bouquet ) , who wants to be a writer .
she meets his crass publisher , vanni corso ( walken ) , another self - absorbed man , and a predictable relationship occurs .
the fireworks occur because she outgrows her husband 's first impressions of her as someone who was impressed with his genius and worships at his feet .
she now wants her own identity and her independence .
the film looked like the usual sitcom stuff , and is plagued with the cheap set design features reserved for a tv movie .
the film sagged in the middle of the story from the weight of its tedium , and eventually landed on its rear end with its unspectacular climax .
it 's set in london , and it opens as model kate rebuffs sexual advances by a wealthy american shopper , vanni .
she later meets him as her hubby 's new upstart publisher who seeks to have her intellectual author husband in his stable in order to give him credibility as a publisher of quality , and he quickly wins favor with her by publishing her vanity novel .
alec who is an obnoxious grouse , someone whom it seems it would be impossible to live with , tries to do everything to stop his wife from having her book published -- which only pushes her into the grasping arms of vanni .
the publisher is proud that he 's a mamma 's boy who never married and is a self - made man who has earned millions .
he has recently acquired a failing old london publishing house and plans to revitalize it , as he proudly tells kate : " if my father could sell pizzas in harlem , i could sell culture in europe .
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the only thing that could n't be sold , is this stiff story and tired plot line .
the mystery to me , is how the lovely kate could like either man unless she was an insensitive dummy .
she soon divorces the beleaguered alec and marries the soon - to - become - beleaguered vanni .
when she writes a second novel , he rebuffs her the same way her first hubby did .
it ends with the same results that happened to hubby number one , as its story of ambition and lust winds down in a whimper .
a business affair was loosely based on the real - life literary and romantic travails of married authors barbara skelton and cyril connolly , in their celebrated 1950s love triangle .
Output (English): N