Saturday 22 May 2021

Avanti (1972 Billy Wilder)

You have to wait until the very end of Wilder and Diamond's jewel of a screenplay for Wendell Armbruster Jr to call Carlucci 'Carlo', like his dad did. Unlike Miss Piggott, he never really warms up to the country - only to her.

"I have searched the hotel with a fine tooth comb - even the mudbaths." Revill and Mills' best performances. He is 91, she 79.

Maybe this mosaic would identify the church:


It did. It's the Chiesa del Soccorso, on the west coast of Ischia. (It was quite easy actually. I Googled 'Churches in Ischia' and it was the first one shown. Things must have been much more fun for location scouts before Google came along.)

Q called it a 'setup of mishaps'. Is that what every film is?


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