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Slow-paced character studies tend to bore me, but that doesn't make this 1987 drama/love story a bad movie, just not the kind I really get in to.

An American architect goes to Italy to supervise an exhibition of the French architect Boullée, who is famous for building oval structures in Italy. The American, quite stuck on his own limited success, brings his wife and a superior attitude as he attempts to show the Italians how it should be done.

Among the people he must deal with is an Italian architect who resents his attitude, but likes his American wife. As things progress, badly for the American, he becomes convinced that the stomach ailment he is fighting is brought on by being poisoned by the local guy and/or the wife.

While things do tend to drag, the acting is excellent, and Brian Dennehy does a better-than-I-expected job as the over-stuffed and suffering architect, with a nice twisty ending to wake you up.