The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

José Quintero

Escritores:

Gavin Lambert (writer)
Jan Read (additional writing)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 diciembre 1961 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway...

Plot Keywords:

Rome | Widow | Passion | Affection | Italian

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Love Among The Ruins

Reparto

Vivien Leigh	...	Karen Stone
Warren Beatty	...	Paolo di Leo
Coral Browne	...	Meg
Jill St. John	...	Barbara Bingham
Jeremy Spenser	...	Young man
Stella Bonheur	...	Mrs. Jamison-Walker
Josephine Brown	...	Lucia
Peter Dyneley	...	Lloyd Greener
Carl Jaffe	...	Baron Waldheim
Harold Kasket	...	Tailor
Viola Keats	...	Julia McIlheny
Cleo Laine	...	Singer
Bessie Love	...	Bunny
Elspeth March	...	Mrs. Barrow
Henry McCarty	...	Campbell Kennedy (as Henry McCarthy)

También conocida como:

The Widow and the Gigolo
La primavera romana de la Sra. Stone (Spain) [es]
La primavera romana de la señora Stone (Spain) [es]

Duración:

103 min

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

UK:12 (re-rating) (2005) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Associated British Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Compañía:

A. A. Productions

Trivialidades:

Last full-length feature film of Ernest Thesiger.

Citas:

Paolo di Leo: Rome is a very old city. Three-thousand years. How old are you? Fifty?

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Vivien Leigh: Scarlett & Beyond (1990) (TV)

Love Among The Ruins

"In a few years, a cut throat would be a blessing" that's what Karen Stone (Vivien Leigh) tells Paolo (Warren Beatty)letting us know that she sees her life in an inexorable descend into the unspeakable. Old age is the ultimate punishment for the vain and the selfish. Tennessee Williams dissects that theory with an expert hand. The depression that Vivien Leigh (magnificent, once you get over the wig) carries with her at all times is so pungent and vivid that when you see her smile you may emit a sigh of relief. She's looking for her angel of death and Warren Beatty really looks the part. So Italian in his childishness if not his accent that you understand why Mrs. Stone will let herself fall into his obvious trap, wouldn't you? The pessimism and the sense of tragedy - the most personal and embarrassing kind - leads us by the hand through this gorgeous, gelid journey through a life about to fade in a place, rightly know as the eternal city. Vivien Leigh is sublime looking into her terrifying future. Warren Beatty seems to fit perfectly the reason to go against everything you believe in. Lotte Lenya is great fun to watch and a wonderful villain if I ever saw one. Coral Browne looks enormous next to Vivien Leigh and as a close friend, she reminded me of Mame's closest friend, Vera Charles, the one who would tell you all the ugly truths. I must confess, I enjoyed it but I couldn't shake off the melancholia for days and days.