Synopsis
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
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Cast
- Laurence OlivierJulius
- Diane LaneLauren King
- Thelonious BernardDaniel Michon
- Arthur HillRichard King
- Sally KellermanKay King
- Broderick CrawfordBrod
- David DukesGeorge de Marco
- Andrew DuncanBob Duryea
- Claudette SutherlandJanet Duryea
- Graham Fletcher-CookLondet
Recommandations
- 80
Chicago Reader
A genuine charmer by George Roy Hill, a director best known for such ersatz charmers as Butch Cassidy and The Sting. His crowd-pleasing instincts have been subsumed by a bracing technical assurance here; the contrivances are still there, but they're presented with a smooth and rare professionalism. - 80
Time
Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) and Screenwriter Allan Burns (cocreator of TV's original Mary Tyler Moore Show) have constructed a romantic comedy that, for all its contrivances, offers an indecent amount of emotional and comic satisfaction. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
This sweet and innocent movie about teen romance won't fail to bring a tear and a smile in its heart-tugging finale. - 70
Variety
Scripter Allan Burns has craftily kept the point of view of the youngsters, Diane Lane and Thelonious Bernard, while the adults, with certain exceptions, are seen as suitably grotesque and ridiculous, giving Romance a crest of humor on which to ride. - 70
Newsweek
In its sweet, witty and modestly sentimental way, it delivers the romantic frissons that many star-studded, would-be blockbusters of the heart lumber in vain to achieve. [30 Apr 1979, p.81] - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
A Little Romance has been described as a movie about the way kids behave when adults aren't looking. I think it's quite the opposite: A movie about the way kids behave when adults are looking - and when adults are writing the dialog and directing the action, too. It gives us two movie kids in a story so unlikely I assume it was intended as a fantasy. And it gives us dialog and situations so relentlessly cute we want to squirm. - 40
The New York Times
A Little Romance is a movie that seems to have melted the minds of everyone of any stature connected with it. - 40
Time Out
Hard to dismiss completely a film in which Broderick Crawford turns up as 'Brod', but with Olivier overdoing it dreadfully as the crinkly old ne'er-do-well who persuades misfit American teen Lane and French youth Bernard to run off to Venice and consolidate their love by the Bridge of Sighs, it's not one that'll win over hardened cynics either.
