Avanti! (Blu-ray) R
When someone knocks on your door and says permesso?...be careful before you say Avanti!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 10, 2017
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Lemmon & Juliet Mills | |
Performer: | Clive Revill, Edward Andrews, Gianfranco Barra & Franco Angrisano | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Ralph E. Winters | |
Screenplay by | Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond | |
Composition by | Carlo Rustichelli | |
Produced by | Billy Wilder | |
Director of Photography: | Luigi Kuveiller |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
It's not vintage Billy Wilder, but even lesser Wilder has wit to spare.
Nitrate Online
This 1972 release is the most underrated of all Billy Wilder comedies and arguably the one that comes closest to the sweet mastery and lilting grace of his mentor, Ernst Lubitsch.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A delightful romantic comedy, Billy Wilder style, meaning that its romanticism is curdled and its comedy is amusingly dark.
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TV Guide
A biting farce about an American in Italy, this gets great comic mileage out of Lemmon, Mills and the Mediterranean, but Wilder seems uncertain whether he's laughing with or at his protagonists.
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Film4
Marvellous performances from Lemmon and Mills.
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Time Out
Wilder justifies this film's length (144 minutes) with its loving, carefree and even relaxing Italian vacation atmosphere.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 3/5 --
Weak Billy Wilder is worth a watch.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Product Description:
Jack Lemmon stars as Walter Armbruster in Wilder's leisurely romantic comedy set on the idyllic Mediterranean. When his father dies in a car crash on the isle of Ischia, the corporate executive quickly is on a plane. Once there, he learns from Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills), a young Brit, that her mother, who was his father's mistress, was also killed. To make matter worse, bureaucratic rules prevent the release of the bodies for a few days. Not long after, both bodies are stolen from the morgue, and thieves are revealed to be an eccentric family of Italian vintners, who hold the corpses hostage until they are paid for the damage caused to their vineyard by the car crash. After reluctantly paying up, the irritable Walter returns to the hotel, where he even more reluctantly joins the free-spirited Pamela for a night of skinny-dipping. When a porter who attempts to blackmail the naked couple and is shot by his angry, very pregnant girlfriend, the hotel manager Carlucci (Clive Revill) is forced to put Walter and Pamela into the same room, while the murder investigation proceeds. Neither of them regrets his decision. A relaxed, sardonic comedy, juxtaposing the uptight American with the laid back European, it makes many of the same points about the excesses of American life as his earlier films in a far more mellow style.