While lightheartedness is not a quality one readily associates with Blier, the movie is more frankly entertaining than most of his previous work.

For those who buy into Blier's style, touching -- and funny -- human truths come shining through.

Paraded around by Blier in various cleavage-popping outfits (and often nothing at all), Bellucci is an amnesia-inducing, hot-blooded presence, blowing the top right off the film with her pristine, slap-yourself-in-the-face magnetism.

It is likely that most viewers will be too distracted by Bellucci's pronounced physical charms to realize just how flat and unconvincing the rest of the movie truly is.