A Little Romance

A Little Romance is a 1979 American Technicolor and Panavision romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, and Diane Lane in her film debut. The screenplay was written by Allan Burns and George Roy Hill, based on the novel Emc2 Mon Amour by Patrick Cauvin. The original music score was composed by Georges Delerue. The film follows a French boy and an American girl who meet in Paris and begin a romance that leads to a journey to Venice where they hope to seal their love forever with a kiss beneath the Bridge of Sighs at sunset.

Lauren King Diane Lane is a booksmart 13yearold American girl with an IQ of 167 living in Paris with her affluent family. She spends her free time reading Heidegger. Daniel Michon Thelonious Bernard is a streetwise 13yearold French boy who lives in La Garenne with his father, a cabbie. He loves Hollywood films and amuses himself handicapping theoretical wagers on horse races. The two meet in the Chteau de VauxleVicomte, where a movie is being filmed, and fall in love. Laurens selfabsorbed mother Sally Kellerman, who consorts openly with her movie director boyfriend George in front of Lauren and her stepfather Arthur Hill, fiercely objects to the romance, calling Daniel a filthy French boy. When Daniel punches George at Laurens birthday party for making a crude innuendo about Lauren, the two are forbidden to date.Lauren and Daniel meet Julius Santorin Laurence Olivier, a quirky but kindly gentleman, literally by accident. He bores Daniel but fascinates Lauren with stories of his life. Julius and Lauren share a mutual love of the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and he claims to have lived at one time in the Brownings villa in Venice. This leads Julius to tell of a tradition that if a couple kiss in a gondola beneath the Bridge of Sighs in Venice at sunset while the church bells toll, they will be in love forever. ........

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