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A Business Affair
A Business Affair
	Film poster
Directed by	Charlotte Brandström
Written by	Charlotte Brandström, Lucy Flannery (dialogue) Barbara Skelton (novel), William Stadiem (screenplay)
Produced by	Willi Bär; Martha Wansborough
Starring	Christopher Walken; Carole Bouquet; Jonathan Pryce;
Cinematography	Willy Kurant
Edited by	Laurence Méry-Clark
Music by	Didier Vasseur
Distributed by	Les Films Number One (France)
Release date	16 March 1994 (France);
Running time	102 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; France
Language	English
Box office	$7,556

A Business Affair is a 1994 romantic comedy film directed by Charlotte Brandström and starring Carole Bouquet. Christopher Walken and Jonathan Pryce. The film was produced by the United Kingdom in coordination with France, Germany and Spain and much of the film was shot in London. On one film poster of the film, Caroline Bouqet is featured with her arms wrapped around Big Ben with the two men beside her.

Plot

The film centers on the life of Kate Swallow, and her susceptibility for falling in love with different men. At the beginning of the film, she is in love with a famous writer named Alec Bolton, who dismisses any intentions she has of writing a novel herself as nonsense, strongly discouraging her. Later, she falls in love with a man named Vanni Cors, the publisher of the firm for which Alec writes books, and she leaves Alec for Vanni. Kate later finds out that Vanni also does not think highly of her writing abilities, yet he had strung her along. Gradually, both men change their attitudes as they vainly struggle to win her affections.

Walken has a scene where he is able to perform his trademark tango routine.

Cast

Carole Bouquet as Kate Swallow
Jonathan Pryce as Alec Bolton
Christopher Walken as Vanni Corso
Sheila Hancock as Judith
Anna Manahan as Bianca
Fernando Guillén Cuervo as Ángel
Tom Wilkinson as Bob
Marisa Benlloch as Carmen
Roger Brierley as Barrister
Jessica Hamilton as Vanni Corso's secretary
Paul Bentall as Drunken Man
Allan Corduner as Dinner Guest
Marian McLoughlin as Dinner Guest
Miguel De Ángel as Spanish Taxi Driver
Christopher Driscoll as Policeman
Beth Goddard as Student
Fergus O'Donnell as Student
Richard Hampton as Doctor
Togo Igawa as a Japanese Golfer
Rodolfo Recrio as himself

Release

The film premiered in France on 16 March 1994, later screening in Germany on 5 May 1994 and Spain on 22 July 1994. It premiered in the United States in New York City on 3 November 1995.

The UK version ran for 102 minutes, but the US version has several scenes censored, particularly some of the scenes with nudity, and ran for 98 minutes.