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.
…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…
"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…
…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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