| “A Day for An Affair” is a lightweight movie about bored housewives committing adultery. Lessons for husbands is to not let your spouse become idle, get her involved in luncheons or charities, don't let her have access to chat rooms and hire private investigators.
There is a housewife's first time searching for an online hook up and another chick who probably had a few already. They see each other from time to time exiting their motel rooms with guys who are definitely not their husbands and eventually come to bond after a too close call of almost being caught in the motel. The beginning contains a lot of getting it on scenes and the awkwardness of meeting people online for the sole purpose of dirtying sheets. After a mad-cap chase scene away from one girl's husband, it becomes a comedy of sorts where the cheating couples continuingly try to elude capture and the husbands attempting to forgive while playing dumb to the past.
The short haired chick captures the screen as much as she did in "The War of Flowers." My favorite scene is when she is running away from the motel and doesn't know what to do or where to go. It is not at all like the scene where the Xavier talks about the perfect woman in "Les Poupees Russes," but it gets my vote. Her voice is deep but she speaks in the high pitched Korean way, so it gets really conflicting at times.
In a way you see why the wives would cheat and continue to cheat while their husbands proceed as if everything is fine, but the film does not delve further than that. All that could be forgiven if more of the movie was focused on the comedy aspects of trying to cheat on the sly, but instead it tries to have a serious beginning and end and that is where it’s not really successful. A better movie about affairs would be "Marriage is a Crazy Thing."
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