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Laurence Olivier and Diane Lane in A LITTLE ROMANCE Available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives

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” You don’t know what love is like until you’ve fallen for your cousin.”

Laurence Olivier and Diane Lane in A LITTLE ROMANCE (1979) is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives. Ordering information can be found HERE

Dapper old rascal and park-bench regular Julius (Laurence Olivier) wants to make a place in our jumbled world for A Little Romance. Specifically, he aids and abets Diane Lane and Thelonious Bernard as 13-year-olds in Paris whose genius IQs are no match for the innocent spell of first love. They decide to seal their union with a sunset kiss under Venice’s Bridge of Sighs. It’s a perfectly impulsive puppy-love scheme — and a perfect trek for pied piper Julius to lead. Gracefully scripted by Allan Burns (Mary Tyler Moore), overflowing with Continental charm under the direction of George Roy Hill (The Sting) and set to a sublime Oscar-winning* score by Georges Delerue, A Little Romance will afford you a lot of pleasure.

Director George Roy Hill and the newly minted Orion Pictures surprised and delighted Seventies cinema-goers when they served up this sleeper hit about first love, drenched in surefooted charm and sweetness while deftly avoiding getting stuck in cloying treacle. Diane Lane (in her film debut) and Thelonious Bernard play a pair of 13-year old geniuses who fall under the spell of Paris, specifically that of pensioner park bencher Julius (Laurence Olivier). Telling the pair that a kiss shared under Venice’s Bridge of Sighs at sunset creates an unbreakable bond, Julius inspires them to go on a European odyssey in search of the greatest prize of all. Location, mise-en-scene and cinematography all conspire under Hill’s direction to place you firmly in this film’s spell. *sigh*. And it all looks more love-ly than ever in this sparkling 1080p HD presentation. Special Features: Remembering Romance with Diane Lane; Theatrical Trailer (HD) 16×9 Letterbox