Bobby Deerfield

Bobby Deerfield is a 1977 American romantic drama film directed by Sidney Pollack and starring Al Pacino and Marthe Keller. Loosely based on the 1961 novel Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque, the film is about a famous American race car driver on the European circuit who falls in love with an enigmatic Swiss woman who is terminally ill. For his performance in the film, Al Pacino was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor. Parts of the movie scenes were filmed in Varenna and Lierna, Lake Como.

During a visit to the survivor, Deerfields world is further set askew when he meets Lillian Morelli Marthe Keller, a quirky, impulsive woman racing against time.Critics panned Bobby Deerfield as an overthetop melodrama with a plodding story line audiences reportedly laughed at scenes intended to be dramatic. Racefilm fans, expecting another Grand Prix or Le Mans, were disappointed that the story did not play out on the race track however, the action footage was filmed by racing cinematographers over the course of the 1976 Formula One season and features actual drivers, including Carlos Pace, Tom Pryce, James Hunt, Patrick Depailler and Mario Andretti. Vincent Canby of The New York Times said that it may turn out to be the years most cynical movie made by people who know better, including Sydney Pollack, the director, and Alvin Sargent, who wrote the screenplay. ........

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