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The Lovers of Verona

Original title: Les amants de Vérone
  • 19491949
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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Anouk Aimée, Roland Armontel, Pierre Brasseur, Martine Carol, André Cayatte, Marcel Dalio, Yves Deniaud, Marianne Oswald, Serge Reggiani, and Louis Salou in The Lovers of Verona (1949)
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Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Julie... Read allAngelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love an... Read allAngelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is thr... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
277
YOUR RATING
    • André Cayatte
    • William Shakespeare(play "Romeo and Juliet")
    • André Cayatte
    • Jacques Prévert(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Serge Reggiani
    • Anouk Aimée
    • Pierre Brasseur
    • André Cayatte
    • William Shakespeare(play "Romeo and Juliet")
    • André Cayatte
    • Jacques Prévert(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Serge Reggiani
    • Anouk Aimée
    • Pierre Brasseur
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    • 5User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Serge Reggiani
    Serge Reggiani
    • Angelo (Romeo)
    Anouk Aimée
    Anouk Aimée
    • Giorgia Maglia (Juliette)
    Pierre Brasseur
    Pierre Brasseur
    • Raffaele
    Louis Salou
    Louis Salou
    • Ettore Maglia
    Martine Carol
    Martine Carol
    • Bettina Verdi
    Roland Armontel
    Roland Armontel
    • Blanchini
    Charles Dechamps
    Charles Dechamps
    • Sandrini
    René Génin
    René Génin
    • Le gardien du tombeau
    Solange Sicard
    • Lucia Maglia
    Claudye Carter
    • Clio
    Marcel Pérès
    Marcel Pérès
    • Domini
    Guy Favières
    Guy Favières
    • Le grand-père
    Frédéric O'Brady
    • Un tueur
    Max Dalban
    • Un tueur
    Charles Blavette
    Charles Blavette
    • Le patron de la verrerie
    Philippe Lemaire
    Philippe Lemaire
    • Benedetti
    Claude Nicot
    • Leo
    Marianne Oswald
    • Laetitia
      • André Cayatte
      • William Shakespeare(play "Romeo and Juliet")
      • André Cayatte
      • Jacques Prévert(dialogue)
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    • Trivia
      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.
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      Featured in Legends of World Cinema: Anouk Aimée

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    Yet another unjustly neglected "Old Wave" French film
    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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      • March 7, 1949 (France)
      • France
      • French
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      • Fondamenta delle Case Nove, Murano, Venice, Veneto, Italy
    • Production company
      • Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC)
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
      • Black and White

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