giovedì 1 aprile 2021

A little romance – George Roy Hill

Daniel e Lauren sono due ragazzini che si amano, e hanno un sogno, un bacio a Venezia.

e non sono i ragazzini pallosi delle pubblicità, sono proprio veri.

sembra quasi un omaggio al cinema (non solo quello precedente di George Roy Hill, ma sopratutto quello francese della nouvelle vague) e da cosa nasce cosa.

film divertente e simpatico, peccato che il film sia poco conosciuto.

la musica di Georges Delerue ha vinto il Premio Oscar nel 1980.

buona visione - Ismaele


 

 

 

Dolce, romantico, cinefilo, strano che non sia più noto. Anche un film auto-promozionale e auto-referenziale per George Roy Hill con le scene dei protagonisti che vanno al cinema a vedere La Stangata e Butch Cassidy in Italia e Francia. Diane Lane è giovincella e già brava.

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As the movie begins we meet another smart young teen, the movie-crazy French native Daniel Michon (Thelonious Bernard), who spends all day at a triple feature while figuring out ways to predict the horse races before returning home to his grumpy, American-hating, cab-driving father. Daniel and Lauren run into one another and it's a match made in heaven. While walking and talking, they accidentally meet a kindred spirit, the smooth-talking, neat old fellow Julius (Laurence Olivier). He tells the youngsters a very romantic story about kissing under a certain bridge in Venice, during a certain time of day, to ensure true love for life…

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"A Little Romance" has been described as a movie about the way kids behave when adults aren't looking. I think it's quite the opposite: A movie about the way kids behave when adults are looking - and when adults are writing the dialog and directing the action, too. It gives us two movie kids in a story so unlikely I assume it was intended as a fantasy. And it gives us dialog and situations so relentlessly cute we want to squirm…

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A Little Romance dances between innocence and corruption with such a gentle touch that everything feels suffused with light. In juxtaposing Lauren’s innocent romance with her mother’s emerging affair with a sleazy film director, it reflects on the good and bad of l’amour, but always recognizes the overall intoxication of making a love connection. The sweetness of George Delerue’s score (his sweeping romanticism is unmistakable) helps to sustain the feeling of giddiness.
One of the most compelling relationships in the film is between Lauren and her stepfather Richard (played with elegant restraint by Arthur Hill). Both actors have that rare, remarkable ability as a performer to communicate deeply with an audience as they listen and react. They are more in-sync than the other characters, because they understand each other’s emotional needs and realize that fighting for love is worth risk and struggle. Hill helps his stepdaughter to keep her big love alive, while also ensuring that his own relationship doesn’t fall victim to her mother’s restlessness…

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