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Director:
Writers:
André Cayatte (writer)
Jacques Prévert (dialogue)
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Release Date:
7 March 1949 (France) more
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Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fascist magistrate... more | add synopsis
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Yet another unjustly neglected "Old Wave" French film more (4 total)

Cast

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Pierre Brasseur ... Raffaele
Marcel Dalio ... Amedeo Maglia
Serge Reggiani ... Angelo (Romeo)
Louis Salou ... Ettore Maglia
Martine Carol ... Bettina Verdi
Roland Armontel ... Blanchini
Charles Dechamps ... Sandrini
René Génin ... Le gardien du tombeau
Solange Sicard ... Luccia Maglia
Claudye Carter ... Clio
Marcel Pérès ... Domini
Guy Favières ... Le grand-père
Frédéric O'Brady ... Un tueur
Max Dalban ... Un tueur
Charles Blavette ... Le patron de la verrerie
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Lovers of Verona
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Runtime:
105 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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In order to recapture the specific iridescent glow of Venetian palaces, talc was sprayed in the atmosphere and shooting proceeded before the powder fell down. more

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Yet another unjustly neglected "Old Wave" French film, 6 March 2002
Author: Spleen from Canberra, Australia

A film version of "Romeo and Juliet" is being shot in Venice and Verona, two people involved in the production fall in love, and their actual romance parallels the fictional one. But it's not all as you'd expect. It's not the actors playing Romeo and Juliet who fall in love, but their non-professional stand-ins: he's a glass-blower, she's the daughter of a well-to-do family fallen on hard times (the father was a Fascist, and is now paying the price). The two are led to the studio separately more or less by chance by Bettina Verdi, the star of the production (there's an irony here I won't mention); neither has ever acted before, and there's no evidence that either one knows anything at all about the play before filming starts.

Georgia, the Juliet, has led a life of stifling confinement and falls in love with the somewhat more experienced Romeo because he's almost the first man she's seen; their love is all youthful passion, and is ultimately destroyed by the corrupt worldliness that surrounds them on all sides. But beyond that the real-world tragedy takes a life of its own and doesn't ape (at some times it scarcely resembles) Shakespeare's plot. It would be giving too much away to even say what form the tragedy ultimately takes. The screenplay is Jacques Prévert alluding to Shakespeare, not Jacques Prévert based on Shakespeare. (I don't speak French, and had to rely on subtitles; while the subtitles aren't particularly poetic, something of the originality of the dialogue survives translation.)

It's an attractive film with an attractive cast. They almost all overact, but that's because they're playing people who themselves overact, so the effect is natural. (The French can get away with this easily; English speakers who were this impassioned would be accused, in many cases unjustly, of being melodramatic.) Cayatte draws all he can out of the shooting locations (remember that Verona had been heavily bombed just four years earlier); the ruins and antiques and so on make the film look rich without making it oppressive or glutinous. Instead, it sparkles.

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