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magazine called the film "Woefully inept ... Marcello Mastroianni displays all the zest of a man summoned up for tax evasion. The five scriptwriters who supposedly worked on the film must have spent enough time at the water-cooler to flood a camel." Katherine Caroll's review in the
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Fashion designer Julia is tired of living because she is suffering from malignant cancer. When she leaves for her last holiday in
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stated that "one of the best laughs is watching Dunaway working on the subject of despair."
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provides two songs: the title song and "Lonely Is." Both songs may be found on the
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referred to it as "the worst movie I have seen all year and possibly since 1926."
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called it the "most godawful piece of pseudo-romantic slop I've ever seen!" and
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wrote that the film "ooks not so much directed as whittled to death."
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who has a whirlwind affair with a race-car driver (played by
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by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri and was distributed by
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called the film "about as exciting to watch as a game of
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Index


Vittorio De Sica
Brunello Rondi
Peter Baldwin
Ennio De Concini
Tonino Guerra
Cesare Zavattini
Arthur Cohn
Carlo Ponti
Faye Dunaway
Marcello Mastroianni
Pasqualino De Santis
Manuel De Sica
Lee Konitz
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Italian
French
romantic
drama film
Vittorio De Sica
Brunello Rondi
Peter Baldwin
Ennio De Concini
Tonino Guerra
Cesare Zavattini
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Faye Dunaway
Venice, Italy
Marcello Mastroianni
one of the worst films ever made

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