One from the Heart (1982)

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

Writers:

Armyan Bernstein (screenplay) &
Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

6 August 1982 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The Francis Coppola classic that audiences never had the chance to see [re-release]

Plot:

Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful...

Plot Keywords:

Fourth Of July | Stockings | Marital Crisis | Stylization | Las Vegas Nevada

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Frederic Forrest	...	Hank
Teri Garr	...	Frannie
Raul Julia	...	Ray
Nastassja Kinski	...	Leila (as Nastassia Kinski)
Lainie Kazan	...	Maggie
Harry Dean Stanton	...	Moe
Allen Garfield	...	Restaurant Owner (as Allen Goorwitz)
Jeff Hamlin	...	Airline Ticket Agent
Italia Coppola	...	Couple in Elevator
Carmine Coppola	...	Couple in Elevator
Edward Blackoff	...	Understudy
James Dean	...	Understudy
Rebecca De Mornay	...	Understudy (as Rebecca de Mornay)
Javier Grajeda	...	Understudy
Cynthia Kania	...	Understudy

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Australia:M | USA:R (No. 26579) | Finland:K-7 (DVD rating: 2003) | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | South Korea:18 | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

American Zoetrope Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Zoetrope Studios

Trivia:

Ever the pioneer, with this film Coppola was one of the first directors to use a live, from-the-camera video feed, instant playback, and, ultimately, using that video to enable rough cuts made of each scene shot by the next morning making this movie less of a film than a grand experiment and continuous, collaborative work-in-progress.

Quotes:

Hank: If I could sing, I'd sing. I can't sing, Frannie!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Presents

The musical beauty of romance, as only Coppola or Woody Allen could picture it

I have never been in the United States, least of all in New York. But through some directors' works I have built up an image of the city that never sleeps that's made of jazz, petty crooks and gangsters, Godard-lovers, intellectual wanna-be socialite... For all I know, New York is what can be seen through the eyes of Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese... and Francis Ford Coppola.

I would pretty much compare ONE FROM THE HEART to Allen's MANHATTAN, in the sense that both are new-yorkers visions of romance and beauty, filtered through a broadway theatrical and glamorous sensibility. This film, however, unlike MANHATTAN, isn't about New York. It's about spining through the spotlights of a city that parties all night long (cabarets, jazz, dance and magical flirts), only to realize that in the end, it's going to be your simple significant other waiting for you in the backstage.

The staging of the whole movie helps a lot, in the sense that's it's all filmed in studio. Magical skies and dawns that make it easy to pass from a store-window directly to a sunset in Bora-Bora; lust and life and music in what I would consider the last great musical. Every once in a while, Coppola gives us a glimpse of his more passionate side. This would then be the sunny side of the melancholic DRACULA.

Add to the magical staging the nightly cabaret-like musical score by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle and one can't help but be amazed with it all. And I thought I was surprised by Woody Allen's EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU.

If this is the way new-yorkers see life, that's the city I want to live in.