An American teenager living in Paris meets and falls in love with a local.An American teenager living in Paris meets and falls in love with a local.An American teenager living in Paris meets and falls in love with a local.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 5 wins & 5 nominations total
- Director
- Writers
- Allan Burns
- Patrick Cauvin
- George Roy Hill(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSir Laurence Olivier wanted to do his own stunts despite his infirmity. Director George Roy Hill had built for Olivier a specially designed bicycle with a motor to give the appearance that the cyclist was pedaling. Olivier wouldn't stand for this, however, and when Hill was away, he got on the real bike and rode down a hill on his own, proving his cycling competency.
- Goofs(at around 51 mins) On the Champs-Elysees a pedestrian makes an obscene gesture to the camera.
- Quotes
Daniel Michon: You have a father or just a mother?
Lauren King: No, I have a father. As a matter of fact, I'm on my third.
Daniel Michon: [surprised] Does your mother divorce them or just kill them?
Lauren King: [laughs] No, still alive.
Daniel Michon: What does the latest one do?
Lauren King: He's in telephones.
Daniel Michon: Telephones. What does he do exactly?
Lauren King: Exactly? He's the head of ICT. In Europe.
Daniel Michon: So. You're a capitalist.
Lauren King: [shakes her head] My father's a capitalist. My own politics are more... radical than my parents'.
Daniel Michon: It's easy to be liberal when you're rich. I've seen it in films.
The only "modern romances" in the same league are Richard Linklater's "Sunrise/Sunset" films, which I urge all fans of "A Little Romance" to see.
As fine as Diane Lane has been in recent films, I don't believe she's ever been as good as she is here, 13 years old and simultaneously fresh as new snow and polished as silver plate. She absolutely belonged on that TIME magazine cover. It's a miraculous performance which may owe more to director Hill than to Lane herself, but who cares? Just enjoy it...her interview feature on the DVD is excellent, by the way.
With the exception of "Marathon Man" and a couple of British TV plays, you can't find better late-period Olivier. He's simply delightful. If you are really perverse (like me), watch this and then compare with "The Boys from Brazil," a dreadful Olivier movie from the previous year, which should have qualified Sir Larry as the all-time champion "great actor working like hell while thigh-deep in pure crap." Here it's the exact opposite: the consummate old pro, totally relaxed, tossing off another memorable performance because he's in a terrific movie that he doesn't have to try and save. This is how I choose to remember the older Olivier. Another old pro, Broderick Crawford, damn near steals the movie in his too-brief cameos. He has a wonderful moment with Thelonious Bernard that will charm anyone who's dealt with an aging person's fading memory.
Arthur Hill, yet another reliable old guy, puts a nice turn on the #2 step-dad character. Who ever looked better in a business suit? The only truly unbelievable thing in the movie is that such a smart and understanding man would actually marry Sally Kellerman's vapid, starstruck mother character. Heavens, what a bitch. She doesn't deserve Arthur, and the scene in which he ejects equally vapid Potential Next Husband David Dukes from their lives is a classic of real-world, real man macho.
It's a real shame that Thelonious Bernard didn't have a film career, but if you can only star in one movie, this is a pretty damn good one for it. The iconic freeze-frame final shot of him leaping above traffic to wave goodbye is something one never forgets. It's like the alternate universe version of the last shot in "The 400 Blows."
One more thing: thank heavens there was no sequel.
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- Jun 5, 2005
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Ich liebe dich - I love you - je t'aime
- Filming locations
- Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy, Seine et Marne, France(where Daniel meets Lauren)
- Production companies
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1