Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

Three short stories come to the screen, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In 'The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit,' a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard a train. They spend the night together, and he decides he's in love with her. She plays along. In 'Dusk Before Fireworks,' Kit, a youthful flapper, arrives at Hoby's classy flat intent on an evening of passion. A constantly ringing telephone interrupts each embrace. In 'Hills Like White Elephants,' a couple traveling in Spain discuss her pregnancy: he wants things to stay as they are, she sees that notion as a fiction.

Direction

Frederic Raphael

Tony Richardson

Ken Russell

Screenplay

Frederic Raphael

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Mary McCarthy

Valerie Curtin

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Dorothy Parker

Ernest Hemingway

Joan Didion