I love you - I Love You - Je t'aime

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Movie
German title I love you - I Love You - Je t'aime
Original title A little romance
Country of production United States
original language English , Italian
Publishing year 1979
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director George Roy Hill
script Allan Burns
production Robert L. Crawford
Yves Rousset-Rouard
music Georges Delerue
camera Pierre-William Glenn
cut William H. Reynolds
occupation

I Love You - I Love You - Je t'aime is a 1978 American film romance directed by George Roy Hill with the two youth actors Thelonious Bernard and Diane Lane in the lead roles. At her side, Laurence Olivier plays a charming pickpocket. The script was based on the novel E = MC2 mon amour (1977) by Claude Klotz .

The scene of the love final: The Bridge of Sighs in Venice

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Lauren King is a smart American teenager from a wealthy family living in Paris. Her mother Kay works in the French capital in the film business and is married to the established compatriot Richard King for the second time. The French boy Daniel Michon is the same age as Lauren but otherwise the exact opposite. While the girl's bourgeois origin is noticeable, the French comes from a simple background, a down-to-earth child of the street who knows how to get through. But he loves cinema, especially the one from Hollywood with Humphrey Bogart and the Westerns by Howard Hawks . But he also admires newer works, such as Zwei Banditen and Der Clou , both productions by a certain George Roy Hill. Daniel's father is just as down-to-earth and makes a living as a taxi driver. Lauren and Daniel meet in the beautiful palace gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte , where a film is being made that Kay King is working on. Daniel is here on a school trip and immediately falls in love with lively Lauren.

Kay King is not very enthusiastic about this little romance, as the original American title suggests, and tries with all his might to separate the two young lovers, especially since Kay and second husband Richard will soon be returning home to the States. When Daniel George, a sleazy friend of Kay's, beats down at Lauren's birthday party for making a suggestive remark to Lauren, Kay King is so upset that she strictly forbids her daughter to interact with Daniel. Neither Lauren nor Daniel, who fear that they will never be able to see each other again, want to abide by the ban. You get to know old Julius Santorin, a quirky but friendly gentleman. The man who has fallen out of time with his stiff hat, waistcoat and bow tie on his neck looks like an old school gentleman, but is in truth a disdainful pickpocket. But his somewhat miraculous nature also seems like a scam. In any case, Julius exerts a great fascination on Lauren with his brightly painted stories from his life. When he tells the two young people who could be his grandchildren about an old tradition, Lauren and Daniel are electrified: Santorini says that when a couple in a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice kisses at sunset while the church bells ring, will hold her love forever.

Daniel and Lauren are enthusiastic about this romantic idea of ​​kissing in a gondola under this Venetian landmark and now they really want to go to the lagoon city. But they don't have the necessary travel money, and besides, two underage teenagers are unlikely to be allowed to cross the state border. In both cases, Santorini can help out. He makes long fingers on the way and the travel budget is replenished. As an adult, who accompanies the two youngsters as a trustworthy grandpa, even entering Italy is no longer an obstacle. The teenagers are temporarily attached to a group of cyclists on their way to Verona. Julius Santorin is limp on the way, the pedaling on the bike uphill and downhill is too much for his tired bones. Another encounter brings the trio together with an American tourist couple, Mr. and Mrs. Duryea.

Neither Daniel nor Lauren know that their worried parents have in the meantime alerted the French police, which are now looking for the two lovebirds. Kay firmly believes that her daughter was kidnapped. After all sorts of other obstacles, the two young runaways and their elderly travel companion finally reach Venice. The Italian police arrested Julius Santorin there and beat him to find out about Daniel and Lauren's whereabouts. But the old man persistently remains silent, not wanting to endanger the young happiness's dream of love. It's already getting dark, and so Lauren and Daniel quickly get into the gondola. But now the gondolier stands across, and Daniel and Lauren have to pull the gondola along the piles under the bridge with their own strength. Before the sun has set, they cross under the Bridge of Sighs at exactly the right time. Finally there is a deep kiss. And the church bells of San Marco ring. Now that Julius knows that the police can no longer prevent the two teenagers in their highly romantic endeavor, he confesses their whereabouts. In the end, the young lovers reconcile with their parents.

Production notes and trivia

The one with exterior shots was made between July 17 and the end of October 1978 on several locations in France and Italy. The world premiere took place on April 26, 1979 in the USA. The German premiere of Ich liebe dich - I Love You - Je t'aime was on June 20, 1980.

Leading actress Diane Lane made her film debut here. She received a cover from Time magazine in 1979, the year it was premiered, and started a remarkable career in Hollywood and Europe, while her film partner Thelonious Bernard only shot the French film Children for the Fatherland in 1980 . He returned to university and completed his studies in dentistry. Then Bernard worked as a dentist in Nantes.

For the Brit Laurence Olivier, filming in the middle of summer was particularly grueling. The 71-year-old Lord, who had just survived pneumonia and thrombosis , had to cycle up a mountain on his bike in one scene.

Hollywood veteran Broderick Crawford plays himself in a film-within-a-film scene at the beginning of the film.

The film structures were designed by Henry Bumstead , the costumes were created by Rosine Delamare .

The film earned composer Georges Delerue an Oscar for best music . Allan Burns received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay .

In 1981, the Bollywood cinema in Tamil brought out an Indian remake under the title Panneer Pushpangal .

Reviews

The critic of the New York Times , Vincent Canby , described the film as "so cumbersome that it appears almost as witty. It's been a long time since I saw a movie about sloppy American tourists and felt sorry for them - which is one of Mr. Hill's accomplishments here. I'm sure it didn't mean anything bad, but that's the effect of the film. That is perhaps the greatest danger when you set out to make a film so relentlessly sweet-tempered ... "

Roger Ebert , in a review in the Chicago Sun-Times , found that “we are being presented with two film children in a story so improbable that I assume it was conceived as a fantasy. And the film shows us dialogues and situations that are so mercilessly cute that we'd love to squirm. "

In the lexicon of the international film it says: "The romance of two young people told with humor and charm, which through a sovereign and self-deprecating direction never slips into kitschy or maudlin."

The Movie & Video Guide wrote, "A look back at Director Hills Henry's love life for the winning handling of adolescence in film, but not quite as good."

Halliwell's Film Guide called the film a "sweet, greasy youthful romance that was enriched by inside jokes and a pleasant, exaggerated star performance."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review in The New York Times
  2. ↑ Critique in the Chicago Sun-Times
  3. ↑ I love you - I Love You - Je t'aime. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 18, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 765
  5. ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 605

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