A Place for Lovers

A Place for Lovers (French: Le Temps des amants, Italian: Amanti) is a 1968 romantic film directed by Vittorio De Sicaand based on the play Gli Amanti by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri. It 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).[1]  It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. To date, the film has not been commercially released on DVD.



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[hide]  *1 Soundtrack  ==Soundtrack[ edit] == Ella Fitzgerald provided two songs, the title song and "Lonely is". The title song can be heard on the Verve releaseJukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1. ==Cast[ edit] == ==Reception[ edit] == The film 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."[2]  Years later, A Place for Lovers was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Reception
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links
 * Faye Dunaway - Julia
 * Marcello Mastroianni - Valerion
 * Caroline Mortimer - Maggie
 * Karin Engh - Griselda
 * Yvonne Gilbert - Marie
 * Mirella Pamphili - Party guest
 * Esmeralda Ruspoli - Attorney's wife
 * Enrico Simonetti - Party entertainer
 * David Archell
 * Martha Buckman