A Place for Lovers

A Place for Lovers (Italian: Amanti, French: Le Temps des amants) is a 1968 French-Italian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, written by Brunello Rondi, Julian Zimet, Peter Baldwin, Ennio De Concini, Tonino Guerra, and Cesare Zavattini. The film is based on the play Gli Amanti by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

A Place for Lovers
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVittorio De Sica
Produced by
Written by
Starring
Music by
CinematographyPasqualino De Santis
Edited byAdriana Novelli
Production
company
  • Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
  • Les Films Concordia
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • 19 December 1968 (1968-12-19) (Italy)
  • 17 September 1969 (1969-09-17) (France)
Running time
88 minutes[1]
Country
  • Italy
  • France
Language
  • Italian
  • English

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).[2]

Plot

Fashion designer Julia is tired of living because she knows she is suffering from a malignant cancer. When she leaves for her last holiday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she meets the 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

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.[3]

Reception

The film opened to generally negative reviews.[4][5] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it the "most godawful piece of pseudo-romantic slop I've ever seen!"[6] while Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times referred to it as "the worst movie I have seen all year and possibly since 1926."[7]

Manny Farber stated that "one of the best laughs is watching Dunaway working on the subject of despair".[8]

A Place for Lovers is widely considered to be one of the worst films of all time and was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, which called the film "a putrid tearjerker." The Italian edition of Vanity Fair also included it on its list of the 20 worst movies ever.[9]

Home media

It is available via streaming on Amazon Prime by Warner Bros.[10]

See also

References
  1. "A Place for Lovers". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  2. Variety
  3. Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol.1 - Ella Fitzgerald|AllMusic
  4. TV Guide
  5. TCM.com
  6. "A Place for Lovers Movie Review (1969) | Roger Ebert".
  7. Medved, Harry. "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time." Fawcett Columbine, 1978.
  8. Manny Farber on THE WILD BUNCH, EASY RIDER, MORE, THE GYPSY MOTHS, THE RAIN PEOPLE, AND BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE - Artfourm International
  9. Pellegrini, Francesca (25 February 2018). "I 20 film più brutti di sempre". Vanity Fair (in Italian). Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  10. Prime Video at Amazon.com
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