Movies - Avanti!

	Movies - Avanti!

Avanti is a 1972 comedy directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews and Gianfranco Barra.

It was adapted by I.A.L. Diamond from a play by Samuel Taylor, and is probably one of the least famous movies of the tandem Wilder-Diamonds despite the fact that it is one of their best ones. It is a fine comedy about the behaviour of the Italians, the American executives and the average Englishwomen of the 1970s, full of surprises and subtle dialogs. As in One, Two, Three
, the contrasts between people coming from different cultures are very intelligent, and everybody is laughed at.

Story

Wendell (Lemmon) goes to Italy to pick up his father's body after an automobile accident. He soon finds that his self righteous elderly father had been having an affair with Pamila's (Mills) mother for the past 10 years and were known as the model romantic couple at the hotel.

Although the story is supposed to take place in Ischia (a small island in the Gulf of Naples) the movie was mainly made in Sorrento, especially at the Grand Hotel Excelsior.

Quotes

Pamela: "Oh, they're a terrific group! They call themselves, "The Four Apostles" - Matthew, Mark, Luke and Bertram."

Carlo Carlucci: "While you are here, maybe you should take some mud baths."
Wendell Armbruster: "No thanks, I had one on the train."
Carlo Carlucci: "On the train?"
Wendell Armbruster: "I drank it. They call it espresso."

Carlo Carlucci: "Take Michelangelo. He had troubles with his kidneys. He took the waters (from the mud baths) here and passed three stones. They are in the museum."

Carlo Carlucci: "Tomorrow is Sunday. Nobody works."
Wendell Armbruster: "Somebody will work."
Carlo Carlucci: "Mr., this is a catholic country."
Wendell Armbruster: "Then, we will get a dispensation from the Pope."
Carlo Carlucci: "For a Presbyterian?"

J.J. Blodgett (as the helicopter is approaching the Ischia heliport): "Are you guys sure this is Ischia?"
Helicopter pilot: "Reasonably sure, sir."
J.J. Blodgett: "Because I don't wanna land in Africa!"
Helicopter pilot: "That would be bigger, sir."

Wendell Armbruster: "Aagh! Goddamn Ralph Nader! Who asked him!"

Category:1972 films

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