The Scarlet Lady (1969 film)
The Scarlet Lady French La femme carlate Italian La donna scarlatta is a 1969 FrenchItalian comedy film directed by Jean Valre and starring Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet, and Robert Hossein. Written by Paul Ggauff and Jean Valre, the film is about a beautiful Italian businesswoman who, after being swindled out of her fortune by her boyfriend, travels to Paris to kill him before killing herself.
After arriving in Paris, Lucille buys an Austin Princess luxury car and sets about planning her revenge while continuing her lavish spending on designer clothing and food. Uncomfortable being alone, she invites a stranger named Franois Maurice Ronet, a marine salvage expert, to have a romantic lunch with her at the Eiffel Tower. When Lucille reveals her intentions to end her life later that week, Franois shows genuine concern for her and states that he will not allow itthat hell not leave her side. Lucille manages to elude him after lunch and he is unable to follow. In the coming days, Franois desperately tries to locate her as she continues her spending spree on fine clothes and expensive food and champagne while waiting for her exboyfriend to arrive in Paris.While posing as a Swiss journalist, Lucille becomes entangled with a New York News correspondent named John Bert Claudio Brook, a shady Spaniard named Alberto de Villalonga Albert Simono, and the drugaddled manager, Tom Sturges Grard Lartigau, of an English rock group named The Timothys who just appeared at Londons Royal Albert Hall. She goes on a series of dates, continuing her extravagant spending during her final days. Meanwhile, Franois continues his desperate search for the woman he believes will kill herself on Friday. After receiving no help from the police, he tracks down all the Austin Princess owners in Paris, thinking it will lead him to Lucille. Despairing on not finding her, he resigns himself to his work, which involves a lucrative new salvage operation in Venezuela that will make him wealthy from the shady Spaniard Alberto as it turns out. ........
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