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      • A Place for Lovers (Italian: Amanti, French: Le Temps des amants) is a 1968 French-Italian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica and written by Brunello Rondi, Julian Zimet, Peter Baldwin, Ennio De Concini, Tonino Guerra and Cesare Zavattini. The film is based on the play Gli Amanti by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
      The film stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a race-car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni). It is considered to be one of the worst films ever made.


      Plot


      Fashion designer Julia is tired of living because she is suffering from malignant cancer. When she leaves for her last holiday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she meets the vital Valerio. The two fall in love instantly, but Julia does not reveal her secret to Valerio. When Valerio learns that she's dying, he pretends to know nothing, continuing the love affair until the end.


      Cast


      Faye Dunaway as Julia
      Marcello Mastroianni as Valerio
      Caroline Mortimer as Maggie
      Enrico Simonetti as Party Host
      Karin Eugh as Griselda
      Esmeralda Ruspoli as Attorney's wife
      Yvonne Gilbert as Marie
      Mirella Pamphili as Party Guest
      David Archell
      Martha Buckman


      Production




      Soundtrack


      Ella Fitzgerald provides two songs: the title song and "Lonely Is." Both songs may be found on the Verve release Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1.


      Release




      Reception


      A Place for Lovers opened to generally negative reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it the "most godawful piece of pseudo-romantic slop I've ever seen!" and Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times referred to it as "the worst movie I have seen all year and possibly since 1926." Rex Reed wrote that the film "[l]ooks not so much directed as whittled to death." Time magazine called the film "Woefully inept ... Marcello Mastroianni displays all the zest of a man summoned up for tax evasion. The five scriptwriters who supposedly worked on the film must have spent enough time at the water-cooler to flood a camel." Katherine Caroll's review in the New York Daily News called the film "about as exciting to watch as a game of tiddly-winks." Critic Manny Farber stated that "one of the best laughs is watching Dunaway working on the subject of despair."
      The film is widely considered among the worst of all time and was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, which called the film "a putrid tearjerker." The Italian edition of Vanity Fair included it on its list of the 20 worst films.


      See also


      List of films considered the worst
      Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnes Varda's 1962 film that is similar in content
      Italian neorealism
      8 1/2, Federico Fellini's 1963 film featuring Mastroianni


      References




      External links


      A Place for Lovers at IMDb
      A Place for Lovers at Rotten Tomatoes
      ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› A Place for Lovers at AllMovie

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