IMDb plot summary: The lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to believe that his wife Carla in secret is Rome's highest paid prostitute.
Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimee, and Didi Perego.
The Appointment stars Omar Sharif as a man who falls desperately in love with his friend's fiancee. When the couple breaks up because the friend suspects his fiancee is a prostitute, Sharif swoops in but can't quite shake the worry that his friend is right. We watch his obsession with "discovering" her grow into something truly terrifying. This is a Sidney Lumet film, and some of his best work focuses on people falling into self-obstructive obsession, and while this one doesn't quite reach the heights of The Pawnbroker or The Offence, it's got a solid conclusion. It moves very slowly, without any of the tension of the others I mentioned, but it does a great job of showing the consequences of not only the obsesser but the obsessee. The woman he continually suspects is having a miserable time with no indication from her partner of what's going on or why he appears to be angry at her, and although we know the reason, it doesn't make his moments of range come across any more sympathetically. Not Lumet's best by any means but definitely a lesser-known one to check out.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Appointment > Port of Shadows
The Appointment < Kuroneko
The Appointment < The Green Mile
The Appointment < Muppet Treasure Island
The Appointment > Celeste and Jesse Forever
The Appointment > The Guard
The Appointment < The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Appointment < Bridge of Spies
The Appointment > Lenny
The Appointment < An Affair to Remember
The Appointment < I Love You, Man
The Appointment < Two Weeks Notice
Final spot: #1650 out of 3660, or 55%.
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