AN ALMOST PERFECT AFFAIR (EIN FAST PERFEKTER SEITENSPRUNG) European Union Film Showcase

Henny (Elfi Eschke) backs out of a marriage
to the strait-laced son of the arrogant
top dog in a small town and flees to see
the world. Because she can’t pay the bills
in the Vienna hotel she checks into she
decides to seduce some rich guy. lns;ead,
she meets and falls in love with henpecked
underdog Siegfried, who’s saddled with a
wife who constantly accuses him of cheating
on her and whose family he can’t
stand. Plump, nice-girl Eschke is lovable,
and so is her character’s rather muddled
goal: She doesn’t know what she wants
only what she doesn’t want-to marry and
be saddled with a small town and smalltown
in-laws. -Eric Hansen, Variety