Nina Takes a Lover (1994)

Director:

Alan Jacobs

Writer:

Alan Jacobs (writer)

Release Date:

3 March 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Sometimes you have to break your vow to keep your promise.

Plot:

When Ninas husband goes off for a few weeks to work, she meets and starts seeing a photographer. This...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Infidelity | Male Nudity | Male Frontal Nudity | Female Nudity

Cast

Laura San Giacomo	...	Nina
Paul Rhys	...	Photographer
Michael O'Keefe	...	Journalist
Cristi Conaway	...	Friend
Fisher Stevens	...	Paulie
Alan Lightner	...	Caribbean musician
Vincent Lars	...	Caribbean musician
Carter Collins	...	Caribbean musician
Michelle Koeppe	...	Shoestore assistant
Marianna Åström-De Fina	...	Customer

Runtime:

100 min | Canada:98 min (Ontario)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | Singapore:M18 | Iceland:L | Germany:12 | Spain:13 | UK:15 (video premiere) | USA:R

Company:

Alan Jacobs Productions

Soundtrack:

Viennese Afternoon

Magical sparkles from Laura San Giacomo and Paul Rhys

A surprisingly well written and creative script, which was no simple plot: there are twists and turns, not by pushing or attention hogging actions – the film just flows from scene to scene, be it recounting or fantasizing or in the present. It's really a gem – well-cut and put together with facets reflecting, refracting and juxtaposed -- rich in story tone and colorful emotions (at times sensuous suggestions), and the happenings were all set in and around a leisurely paced San Francisco (in a cafe or a studio, for instance).

How attractive and alluring is this picture? Writer-director Alan Jacobs made spending time in a shoe store most interesting to follow, especially we are with Laura San Giacomo. Her pairing with Paul Rhys from Britain was more than suitably matched. In the end, it's absolutely fulfilling: the romance between the two key characters is imaginative and real. This film affirms that love can be wondrous and mysteriously romantic at the same time – you and your partner can be whoever, whenever, whatever you want to make it to be. Love and receive love. Be.

Laura San Giacomo was in Steven Soderbergh's 1989 `sex, lies and videotape' with James Spader, Andie MacDowell and Peter Gallagher, and in writer-director Simon Moore's 1992 `Under Suspicion' with Liam Neeson (a very good who dunnit with twists after twists and. . .more). Paul Rhys was in Robert Altman's 1990 "Vincent and Theo" with Tim Roth and Johanna Ter Steege (she was the disappearing wife in George Sluizer's 1988 Dutch film "The Vanishing".)