Lovers and Liars

1979 film by Mario Monicelli

Leonardo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Mario Monicelli
Tullio Pinelli
Paul D. Zimmerman

Produced byAlberto GrimaldiStarring

Goldie Hawn
Giancarlo Giannini
Claudine Auger
Laura Betti
Aurore Clément
Andréa Ferréol

CinematographyTonino Delli ColliEdited byRuggero MastroianniMusic byEnnio Morricone

Production
company

Produzioni Europee Associati^[1]^[2]

Distributed byUnited Artists^[1]^[2]

Release date

April 25, 1979 (1979-04-25)

Running time

120 min.Countries

Italy
France

LanguageItalian

Lovers and Liars (Viaggio con Anita) is a 1979 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Goldie Hawn and Giancarlo Giannini. It is Hawn's only foreign film.^[3] It was released in the United States in February 1981.

Plot

Anita (Hawn) is an American actress who decides to vacation in Rome. There, she becomes involved in a romance with her friend's married lover Guido (Giannini).

Cast

Goldie Hawn as Anita
Giancarlo Giannini as Guido Massacesi
Claudine Auger as Elisa Massacesi
Aurore Clément as Cora
Laura Betti as Laura
Andréa Ferréol as Noemi
Renzo Montagnani as Teo
Franca Tamantini as Oriana Massacesi
Gino Santercole as Tonino, the truck driver
Lorraine de Selle as Gennifer

Critical reception

In his review of the film in The New York Times, Herbert Mitgang wrote that "the love scenes, which more or less is what this crazy, mixed up plot aims to be leading up to, lack any redeeming social value," that the writers "seem to have made up this script as they went along," that "there are inexplicable sudden cuts, as the plot wavers between the absurd and the serious," and that the film "doesn't really deserve its R rating, unless the phrase is added, For immature adults only."^[4] Film critic Gene Siskel reported that "this film is full of stupid slapstick and badly done dubbing," and that it was "a total waste of time."^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Viaggio con Anita (1978)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Lovers and Liars (1978)". UniFrance. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
^ "Hollywood's Goldie Age". Sacramento Bee. June 14, 1992. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
^ Mitgang, Herbert. "Unmatched Couple in 'Lovers and Liars'". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
^ Siskel, Gene. "Time Bandits, The Woman Next Door, Man of Iron, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, 1981". Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews. Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews. Retrieved 2024-01-23.