A Place for Lovers

A Place for Lovers
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVittorio De Sica
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyPasqualino De Santis
Edited byAdriana Novelli
Music by
Production
companies
  • Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
  • Les Films Concordia
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • 19 December 1968 (1968-12-19) (Italy)
  • 17 September 1969 (1969-09-17) (France)
Running time
88 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
Languages
  • Italian
  • English

A Place for Lovers (Italian: Amanti, French: Le Temps des amants) is a 1968 French-Italian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica and written by Brunello Rondi, Julian Zimet, Peter Baldwin, Ennio De Concini, Tonino Guerra and Cesare Zavattini. The film is based on the play Gli Amanti by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The film stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a race-car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni).[2] It is considered to be one of the worst films ever made.

Dunaway in A Place for Lovers (1968)
  1. ^ "A Place for Lovers". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  2. ^ "A Place for Lovers". Variety. (31 December 1968).