Take All of Me

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Take All of Me
Dedicato a una stella.jpg
Directed by Luigi Cozzi
Screenplay by
  • Luigi Cozzi
  • Michele Delle Aie
  • Danielle Del Giudice
  • Sonia Molteni [1]
Story bySonia Molteni [1]
Produced byMario Cotone [1]
Starring
CinematographyRoberto D'Ettore Piazzoli [1]
Edited byAngelo Curti [1]
Music by Stelvio Cipriani [1]
Production
company
A-Esse Cinematografica [1]
Release date
  • 15 August 1976 (1976-08-15)
Running time
91 minutes [1]
CountryItaly [1]

Take All of Me (Italian : Dedicato a una stella/ Dedicated to a Star) is an Italian melodrama film written and directed by Luigi Cozzi. [2] [3]

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Plot

A young woman named Stella is dying in a hospital of leukemia. A man named Richard Lansky who arrives at the hospital is mistaken for her relative and he is told of Stella's prognosis. The accidental occurrence results in the two forming a romantic relationship in the short period of time Stella has left to live.

Cast

Reception

David McGillvray reviewed the film in the Monthly Film Bulletin and stated that the film "pulled out all the stops to contrive a three-handkercheif weepie unsurpassed since the days of Love Story ." [1] McGillvray praised the film as "flawlessly photographed by Roberto D'Ettore Piazolli" but found that the film "all too often one's tears are stemmed by the usual doubts. Why, for instance, is Richard so callous to a girl he knows is dying of leukaemia? And why, in particular, does Stella have so much faith in a composer whose ability is clearly limited to writing bland scores of the type that accompanies this film?" [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 McGillvray 1979, p. 5.
  2. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876059350.
  3. Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer,1999. ISBN   8820029197.

Sources

  • McGillvray, David (January 1979). "Dedicato a una stella (Stella)". Monthly Film Bulletin . Vol. 46, no. 540. British Film Institute.