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A Little Romance

Year:

1979

Duration:

108 min

Genres:

Comedy | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.5

Director:

George Roy Hill

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations

Details

Country: France

Release Date: 1979-04-27

Filming Locations: Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy, Seine et Marne, France

Cast

Actor

Character

Sally Kellerman

A Little Romance

Thelonious Bernard

A Little Romance

Laurence Olivier

Julius

Diane Lane

Lauren King

Arthur Hill

Richard King

Broderick Crawford

Himself

David Dukes

George de Marco

Andrew Duncan

Bob Duryea

Claudette Sutherland

Janet Duryea

Graham Fletcher-Cook

Londet

Ashby Semple

Natalie Woodstein

Claude Brosset

Michel Michon

Jacques Maury

Inspector Leclerc

Anna Massey

Ms. Siegel

Peter Maloney

Martin

Dominique Lavanant

Mme. Cormier

Mike Marshall

1st Assistant Director

Michel Bardinet

French Ambassador

David Gabison

French Representative (as Alain David Gabison)

Isabel Duby

Monique

Geoffrey Carey

Make-up Man (as Jeffrey Carey)

John Pepper

2nd Assistant Director

Denise Glaser

Woman Critic

Jeanne Herviale

Woman in Metro Station

Carlo Lastricati

Tour Guide

Judith Mullen

Richard's Secretary

Philippe Brigaud

Theater Manager

Lucienne Legrand

Theater Cashier

Did you know?

Trivia

The crews were denied access to shoot in the Louvre. So instead, a replica set was built complete with several plaster components.

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Laurence Olivier wanted to do his own stunts despite his age and health. Director George Roy Hill had a specially designed bicycle manufactured for Olivier. The bike had a motor that drove it making the cyclist look like they were still pedaling it. But Olivier wouldn't have a bar of this and when Hill was away, got on the real bike and rode down a hill all on his own proving his cyclist competency.

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Within a couple of years of this movie being made and released, Bollywood had filmed a remake in Tamil entitled Panneer Pushpangal (1981) in 1981.

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Goofs

The whole movie is premised on Daniel and Lauren having true love and being together forever if they kiss beneath the Bridge of Sighs in Venice at the moment of sunset as the campanile is sounding. Yet, when Julius (Laurence Olivier) looks out the window and announces that at that moment Daniel and Lauren are doing so, the sun is visibly above the horizon, with sunset clearly some time in the future.

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Quotes

Daniel Michon: [chasing after Lauren outside the adult theater] I've never seen one of them before either, I wouldn't have taken you. It isn't like that. That's something else. It isn't love.

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Lauren King: I used to think, maybe a long time ago, like... like in the time of the pharaohs or Louis the 13th that, there was somebody, made just perfect for me. I mean, when you think about it and consider that your feelings of love, begin when you're about ten and if you live to say 70, well that's pretty limiting because, what chance is there that he'll be alive at the same time you are? You know?

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Daniel Michon: ...that legend is just another one of your damn lies.

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Faq

What is the slower musical piece heard periodically through the film?

It is the second movement (Largo) of the "Concerto for Lute, Two Violins and Basso Continuo in D major" RV 93, composed by Antonio Vivaldi in the early 18th century. Composer Georges Delerue was credited for "Original Music" in this movie, but was not responsible for composing the concerto, only arranging and conducting it. Because of its age, the composition is in the public domain and has no copyright protection, nor is there a legal requirement for any user of the work to provide attribution to the composer.

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