***SPOILERS*** Nowhere as bad as you were made to think it is in it being considered to be one of the 50 worse films of all times the film Vittorio De Sica's "A Place for Lovers" does have its moments. Especially in the interacting between its two stars Faye Dunnaway as the rich American divorcée Julia and Marcello Mostroianni as Valerion the Italian race car driver and inventor of a new revolutionary air bag filled with water. The water bag would not only save countless lives on the road but prevent cars from catching fire as well after a near fatal traffic accident.
It's Julia who despite looking as fit and healthy as a Olympic caliber womens gymnast or swimmer is suffering for a fatal and unnamed illness that will soon kill her. It's Julia who had earlier escaped from a New York City hospice center to spend her last days in sunny Italy. It's while catching the local TV news in her rented mansion, she seems to be loaded with cash, Julia sees Valerion whom she once met in the states. It was Valerin who gave her his phone number in Italy if she ever visited there. Wanting to spend her last days on earth with the handsome Valerion Julia gives him a call to come up and see her for a few days before she checks out for good. What he doesn't realizes is that Julie in checking out for good means that she's days away from dying of her fatal and unnamed illness! It doesn't take long for Valerion to fall madly in love with Julia but in her just having days to live she wants to break off the relationship before he finds out the fatal medical condition that she's in. This happens almost by accident when Julia's good friend Maggie, Caroline Mortimer, from America shows up at a ski lodge in the Italian Alps where the two are staying. Maggie wants to get Julia back to be treated for her illness even though its fatal and there's no chance that she'll survive the treatment. It that the treatment would only ease the pain, with heavy doses of morphine, she's suffering as she goes under the waves or white sheet in the local county morgue!
***SPOILERS*** It takes a lot of soul searching on Valerion's part but he finally comes to the sad conclusion that the little time he has with Julia should be spent in making her happy and not feel that she's on her way out, from life, as the unnamed and fatal illness takes hold of her in its final and fatal stages. Going so far in letting Julia behind the wheel to show her how in love he is with her Valierion risks his as well as Julia's life in her madly driving through the dangerous roads in the Alps in her attempt to kill herself. It was after that incident that Julia finally came to her sense and agreed to go back to the NYC hospice center and, with the treatment provided to her there, die both quietly and peacefully and most of all without pain! Which in fact was the best present that a tearful and love sick Valerion could have given her!
P.S Jokes aside "A Place for Lovers" started a trend in the movies about fatal and unnamed disease flicks among lovers that's still around,now over 40 years, today. With the granddaddy of those movies "Love Story" being released two years later in 1970 which became the biggest money making film of that year!
It's Julia who despite looking as fit and healthy as a Olympic caliber womens gymnast or swimmer is suffering for a fatal and unnamed illness that will soon kill her. It's Julia who had earlier escaped from a New York City hospice center to spend her last days in sunny Italy. It's while catching the local TV news in her rented mansion, she seems to be loaded with cash, Julia sees Valerion whom she once met in the states. It was Valerin who gave her his phone number in Italy if she ever visited there. Wanting to spend her last days on earth with the handsome Valerion Julia gives him a call to come up and see her for a few days before she checks out for good. What he doesn't realizes is that Julie in checking out for good means that she's days away from dying of her fatal and unnamed illness! It doesn't take long for Valerion to fall madly in love with Julia but in her just having days to live she wants to break off the relationship before he finds out the fatal medical condition that she's in. This happens almost by accident when Julia's good friend Maggie, Caroline Mortimer, from America shows up at a ski lodge in the Italian Alps where the two are staying. Maggie wants to get Julia back to be treated for her illness even though its fatal and there's no chance that she'll survive the treatment. It that the treatment would only ease the pain, with heavy doses of morphine, she's suffering as she goes under the waves or white sheet in the local county morgue!
***SPOILERS*** It takes a lot of soul searching on Valerion's part but he finally comes to the sad conclusion that the little time he has with Julia should be spent in making her happy and not feel that she's on her way out, from life, as the unnamed and fatal illness takes hold of her in its final and fatal stages. Going so far in letting Julia behind the wheel to show her how in love he is with her Valierion risks his as well as Julia's life in her madly driving through the dangerous roads in the Alps in her attempt to kill herself. It was after that incident that Julia finally came to her sense and agreed to go back to the NYC hospice center and, with the treatment provided to her there, die both quietly and peacefully and most of all without pain! Which in fact was the best present that a tearful and love sick Valerion could have given her!
P.S Jokes aside "A Place for Lovers" started a trend in the movies about fatal and unnamed disease flicks among lovers that's still around,now over 40 years, today. With the granddaddy of those movies "Love Story" being released two years later in 1970 which became the biggest money making film of that year!