A Place for Lovers

A Place for Lovers French Le Temps des amants , Italian Amanti is a 1968 FrenchItalian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica and based on the play Gli Amanti by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri. 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 was released by MetroGoldwynMayer. The film was released on DVD in 2009 by Atlantic Film AB.

Ella Fitzgerald provides two songs, the title song and Lonely is What lonely is, is me. Both songs can be heard on the Verve release Jukebox Ella The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1.The film opened to generally negative reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago SunTimes called it the most godawful piece of pseudoromantic slop Ive 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. Mark Deming wrote in the New York Times that Dunaway and Mastroianni were romantically involved during the filming of Amanti but that little of their personal chemistry can be seen in the movie. Years later, A Place for Lovers was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. ........

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