A Place for Lovers

A Place for Lovers
File:Place for lovers.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Vittorio De Sica
Produced by	Arthur Cohn Herschell Gordon Lewis Carlo Ponti
Written by	Brunello Rondi Julian Zimet Peter Baldwin Ennio De Concini Tonino Guerra Cesare Zavattini
Starring	Faye Dunaway Marcello Mastroianni
Music by	Manuel De Sica Lee Konitz
Cinematography	Pasqualino De Santis
Edited by	Adriana Novelli
Production company	Compagnia Cinematografica Champion Les Films Concordia
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	19 December 1968 (1968-12-19) (Italy) 17 September 1969 (1969-09-17) (France)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	France Italy
Language	English

A Place for Lovers (French: Le Temps des amants, Italian: Amanticode: it is deprecated ) is a 1968 French-Italian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica and based on the play Gli Amanti by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri. The film stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a race car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni). It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was released on DVD in 2009 by Atlantic Film AB.

"a place for lovers" is widely considered to be one of the worst films of all time

Plot

The rich fashion designer Julia is tired of living because she knows she is suffering from a malignant cancer. When the woman leaves for her last holiday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she meets the young and vital Valerio. The two fall in love instantly, but Julia does not reveal her secret to Valerio. When Valerio finds out that she is sick and dying, he decides to pretend to know nothing, continuing his love affair with Julia to the end.

Cast

• Faye Dunaway as Julia
• Marcello Mastroianni as Valerion
• Caroline Mortimer as Maggie
• Karin Engh as Griselda
• Yvonne Gilbert as Marie
• Mirella Pamphili as Party guest
• Esmeralda Ruspoli as Attorney's wife
• Enrico Simonetti as Party entertainer
• David Archell
• Martha Buckman

Soundtrack

Ella Fitzgerald provides two songs, the title song and Lonely is ("What lonely is, is me!"). Both songs can be heard on the Verve release Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1.

Reception

The film opened to generally negative reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it the "most godawful piece of pseudo-romantic slop I've ever seen!", and Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times referred to it as "the worst movie I have seen all year and possibly since 1926." Mark Deming wrote in the New York Times that Dunaway and Mastroianni were romantically involved during the filming of Amanti but that little of their personal chemistry can be seen in the movie. A Place for Lovers was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

External links

• A Place for Lovers at IMDb