A Little Romance (1979)
Directed by George Roy Hill
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren's mother forbids her to date the outspoken Daniel, the young lovebirds team up with eccentric pickpocket Julius to run away to Venice, where, according to legend, a couple who kiss under the Bridge of Sighs will stay together forever.
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She is the most compelling reason to see Letters to Juliet, which reminded me, just the tiniest bit, of Sir Laurence Olivier's A Little Romance if only because both feature the talents of a legendary British actor and Italian settings that have you ready to book your seats on Alitalia this minute.
She is the most compelling reason to see Letters to Juliet, which reminded me, just the tiniest bit, of Sir Laurence Olivier's A Little Romance ?
There have been any number of films over the years following a couple of precociously young children falling in love in a disarmingly adult manner (at least tonally)--there was a particularly delightful one from George Roy Hill entitled "A Little Romance" with a then-unknown and impossibly young Diane Lane as the girl and Laurence Olivier as the avuncular old guy who helps them along the way.
Francois Truffaut covered this ground in " The 400 Blows ," and Louis Malle in " Murmur of the Heart ," and they did it by giving us characters who were seen with absolute clarity, who were no better and no worse than your usual pre-gangling 13-year-old, and who seemed plausible.