I loved
A Little Romance. It's a totally romantic and charming rom-com about two young teenagers in love. Diane Lane is adorable and her boyfriend, Thelonious Bernard, who only made two movies in his entire career, is just the
cutest. I found the whole thing lovely. Broderick Crawford also has a delightful couple of scenes as himself – an actor making a movie in Paris; they call him "Brod" the whole time, and it's fun. George Roy Hill, who directed, has also made the main character into a movie fan who loves (why shouldn't he?) George Roy Hill movies like
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and
The Sting. So nostalgic clips of these caper movies are peppered throughout for thematic purposes but also just for fun.
The only weird part of
A Little Romance is, ironically, Laurence Olivier, who is top billed and who gives an extremely strange, hammy performance that really does not jell with the rest of the picture. It really ought to have been Paul Newman or Robert Redford here, and I'm not sure why it wasn't. But, hey, it doesn't much matter. Olivier's character is not central here (top billed or no), and the rest of the movie is so cute that I'm happy to forgive.
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