Viaggio con Anita (1979)

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1. 

   kaaaaaro

   This is not a romcom. This film tries to connect love and death. The film beautifully juxtaposes the naked bodies of women in bed with the father's corpse in bed, this should be a clue to even the most oblivious viewer. There is so much subtext going on, like why is the woman Guido tries to pick up sleeping naked in Anita's room?
   This film has elements of a romcom because it tries to depict the full range of life and life has elements of a romcom.
   If the camera work was a little better this would be one of the great classics of all time. 6 years 3 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Lovers & Liars AKA A Trip with Anita, an Italian romance starring Goldie Hawn and Giancarlo Giannini, on a road trip from Rome to Pisa, filled with witty banter, screwball comedy moments, and perhaps some heart thanks to a subplot about the seductive Italian's father dying. At least that seemed to have been the plan. And perhaps as Fellini's proposed follow-up to The Nights of Cabiria, with Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck, it might have worked. Not that find the two stars unwatchable, or that director Mario Monicelli isn't an Oscar favorite, but... You can definitely see the kernel of a good romantic comedy here. Some of the lines and moments, taken in isolation, are actually good. Quite good. Giannini isn't just lying to get into Hawn's pants, but feels embarrassed by his family and grief; there's something cultural there. Unfortunately, the American/VHS/DVD edit makes a mess of what is already a tonally mixed story, possibly what's robbing the romantic turns of their believability, and the dub on the Italian actors is terribly annoying. Fix that last element, and I think you have a genuinely charming romcom abroad. But the sound is so distracting as to derail the whole trip. 7 years 2 months ago

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