I Watch Films: Three Coins In The Fountain

 

Three Coins In The Fountain

It’s Rome in the 50s. Three American women are sharing an apartment and working as secretaries. They all have complex romantic (heh) entanglements.

The prince who has a habit of flying girls to Venice for the day, then his plane breaking down so that they have to stay the night with him is a bit sleazy and the women get one over on him. Following this the new secretary does some research and goes on a campaign to win his heart. Some entertaining stuff, turn about is fair play after all.

Very occasionally we almost touch on the war (two of the women are working for a US aid agency) but in other times not so much. The prince, a young man, has a mother but his father is never mentioned. Shadwell, an American author who the third woman works for, has not been back to America for twenty years. Where was he ten years ago? But none of this is important. Rome is an exotic place for adventures and foolish affairs, where you can get into trouble and also out of it again.

Watch This: A pretty and fun old-fashioned romantic comedy
Don’t Watch This: Pretty people and gorgeous backdrops do not hold up against a relatively slight set of plots