One of the biggest disasters ever to be perpetrated by a major film-maker, Vittorio de Sica's "Amanti" ("A Place for Lovers") is a wheezy romance involving Faye Dunaway -- as an ultra-glam fashion designer -- and Marcello Mastroianni -- as a married man who has an affair with Faye, not realizing that she's dying from one of those mysterious Hollywood Starlet terminal diseases. The production design is fabulous, but the acting and the script are not to be believed.
Review of A Place for Lovers
