Notes on Five Italian Films

Abstract

In Chronicle of an Affair, Enrico, an industrialist, asks a private investigator to inquire into the past of his young wife, Paola. The operative unearths an "accident" that enabled Paola to get rid of a school friend and to acquire the other girl's fiance, Guido. The snoopings of the detective are reported to Paola and Guido, and bring them together again. Once more they fall in love. Paola persuades Guido to kill her husband. The night chosen for the crime, while Guido is waiting for the husband, Enrico overturns in his car and is killed. Guido abandons Paola.