the scarlet lady be a film that steer the viewer into every territory and from fanciful comedy to some silly animation sequence to very serious drama . the beautiful monica vitti be well cast a an outrageously rich woman who lose her fortune to her snake in the grass boyfriend and who tell her in bed that he have steal her blind . after the initial shock and ms. vitti decide to kill both herself and her now ex boyfriend and but before do so she give herself a week to live it up and so she sell all of her jewel and check into a reasonably swank hotel and though probably below her usual standard and and parade around paris in some very eye catch outfit . she manage to catch the eye of maurice ronet and buy him lunch and then leave the restaurant without say goodbye and cause him to go through a series of both funny and sad adventure in his effort to find her . meanwhile and ms. vitti also have experience that be quite fun and such a pretend to be a reporter and become a groupie of a famous rock band and and she have some terribly sobering experience and such a save the life of an elderly man who be attempt suicide and only to have him curse her for be a rich lady who have everything while he have nothing . meanwhile ronet race against the clock to save vitti from kill herself . will he succeed . of course i will never give the end away and but needless to say this be a very well make film that be often more serious than meet the eye . the entire cast be outstanding and the chemistry between ronet and vitti be there and be very obvious . these be two people the viewer end up care about and despite the fact that most viewer will never encounter such fanciful folk in real life and and a lot of this film be way above the cloud in term of reality and but enough of it be ground to the point that it be a credible and satisfying film experience . again and it be hard to categorize this a comedy or drama because both genre be both successfully represent herein .