A Place for Lovers

1968 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 17% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 947 947

Director

Vittorio De Sica Photo
Vittorio De Sica

Top cast

Faye Dunaway Photo
Faye Dunaway as Julia
Mirella Pamphili Photo
Mirella Pamphili as Party Guest
Esmeralda Ruspoli Photo
Esmeralda Ruspoli as Attorney's Wife
Marcello Mastroianni Photo
Marcello Mastroianni as Valerio
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800.67 MB
1280*694
Italian 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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1.45 GB
1920*1040
Italian 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mister_sebastian

Commenting On A Place For Lovers...

... is a rather odd and thankless task. I never dreamt of thinking about the likes of Vittorio De Sica, Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni without using the highest of praise, but this uninteresting, plodding 1969 film provided me with a chance to do so.This film is proof that the unthinkable, what we judge to be impossible and beyond imagination, can happen.Dunaway is Julia, a peculiar, to say the least, american woman who makes a living out of designing gowns, who has an affair with Valerio, a married italian engineer working on the development of the airbag.They're rich, they're glamorous, they're beautiful, they're in love... nothing could part them. Except Julia is suffering from a terminal illness, and is bound to die in a matter of days.Sticking to the basic rules of screenwriting as I know them, this movie is irritatingly plodding. We only discover that Julia is dying towards the end, and we never know whose is the main dilemma - Julia's or Valerio's. Should they stick together and face bravely Julia's last days on Earth? is the main query, I guess. The only problem is that this query, this dilemma, is presented to the audience in the last twenty minutes of film, and resolved - better yet, unresolved - in the last five. The other 70 minutes or so of film are spent as they stay together and play amusing little games with each other. A time in which the five writers of the film could easily delve into their main characters psyches - if anything else - is wasted. Julia's just plain weird and depressed, and Valerio seems terribly cold and unfeeling.It also clearly aspires to be profound. It aims at being something lyric, but, trapped inside it's own pretentious attitude, it becomes a schmaltzy tearjerker.The acting is not bad at all, though. But the script provides Dunaway and Mastroianni with little chance to showcase their many talents. Also, the set designs are gorgeous, as mentioned by the first reviewer, and the soundtrack is lovely. The title song, written by Manuel De Sica - hail, nepotism! - is sung by none other than Ella Fitzgerald.Well, all in all, this movie is a bizarre one, but it is worth viewing nevertheless, mainly as existing proof that nothing - I mean, nothing - is impossible. :)
Reviewed by xnicofingerx 6 / 10

Neorealism meets New Hollywood?

A beginning entirely from the pen of Hollywood, with a Hollywood star and Hollywood sounds. Take a look at this Faye Dunaway if you want to know what was being talked about, or better still raved about, at the time. In terms of content, however, we are not in the American New World, but in old Italy and the director is also an old Italian. A late work for Vittorio De Sica and obviously another cinematic experiment. Neorealism meets New Hollywood? Not at all, most likely contemporary European. A dramatic romance, at least on paper, but in its realisation it's quite offbeat. Enter Marcelo Mastroianni, the contrast is complete. In the course of the film, the viewer is certainly also confused. No wonder with such an inconsistent tone. Love. Illness. Happiness. Misfortune. Hope, so far, so good. But then there's jazz droning, loads of bizarre scenes, overacting and, despite the exaggerated emotions, somehow undercooled melancholy. To the point, it gets silly in places and consistently erratic, which can be seen as a warning or a promise, depending on your expectations. You should leave them where they are anyway and just try to let the special atmosphere, the great images and the two icons work their magic. Dunaway and Mastroianni don't go together? Apparently they do, in real life they had an affair, one alongside their marriage. And in the film, well, one looks good, one plays well, in a way a complement. The chemistry was right, see the aforementioned gossip. I'm noticeably not quite as critical of the film as the public was at the time, because I could feel what I was seeing, not something special, but unusual, somehow intoxicating. I also really wanted to know how this hot-blooded love would end, or not. An interest in the film that the film first has to create.
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