American teenager Lauren King living in Paris, meets and falls in love with a local boy named Daniel Michon. They befriend storyteller Julius and take a trip to Venice in George Roy Hill's r... Read allAmerican teenager Lauren King living in Paris, meets and falls in love with a local boy named Daniel Michon. They befriend storyteller Julius and take a trip to Venice in George Roy Hill's romantic comedy.American teenager Lauren King living in Paris, meets and falls in love with a local boy named Daniel Michon. They befriend storyteller Julius and take a trip to Venice in George Roy Hill's romantic comedy.
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- 5 wins & 5 nominations total
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- TriviaFilming in Paris, where he had been part of the U.S. Army when they liberated the city in 1944, was a great experience for Broderick Crawford. According to co-star David Dukes, "He could still walk into restaurants where the owner would remember him and sit him down to dinner."
- Goofs(at around 51 mins) On the Champs-Elysees a pedestrian makes an obscene gesture to the camera.
- Quotes
Daniel Michon: You have a father or just a mother?
Lauren King: No, I have a father. As a matter of fact, I'm on my third.
Daniel Michon: [surprised] Does your mother divorce them or just kill them?
Lauren King: [laughs] No, still alive.
Daniel Michon: What does the latest one do?
Lauren King: He's in telephones.
Daniel Michon: Telephones. What does he do exactly?
Lauren King: Exactly? He's the head of ICT. In Europe.
Daniel Michon: So. You're a capitalist.
Lauren King: [shakes her head] My father's a capitalist. My own politics are more... radical than my parents'.
Daniel Michon: It's easy to be liberal when you're rich. I've seen it in films.
Director Hill directs against type here but imbues his story with some wonderful vignettes. When Daniel's friend Londet sneaks them in to watch a blue movie Laurens reaction is a typically adolescent, morbid curiousity followed by revulsion and then a pert clinical summary.As if to say this aint that kind of a movie folks. Interestingly the two teenage leads found the eventual physical contact an embarrasing experience for all and had to be firmly encouraged by the director.There is a hint of their discomfort on screen but only for a moment. Love conquers all(sigh). Oliviers humourous performance transfixes when he almost gags on his croissant when seeing his criminal identikit photo in the newspaper. Hill also finds time to place excerpts from previous movies into his latest film,but aptly so. Albeit all in a foreign language. I also loved the photography and the landscape, I dont remember Italy being this lovely. The performances by all are very affecting although Lane did go on to bigger though not always better things. Bernard with his gallic good looks and despite passable reviews was never heard from again. Olivier sadly has passed on and will be missed by all for a long time to come.The ending was predictable but touching all the same.It never won any awards but twenty years later it remains one of my firm favourites for love story of the decade.
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- Un pequeño romance
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- Verona, Veneto, Italy(Verona sequences)
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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