1958 · drama · romance
The Lovers (Les Amants)
Directed by André Cayatte1h 45m1958
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Raffaele, the Maglia family's dubious tout...
Our read: The Lovers (Les Amants) (1958) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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