First Love

I saw this film twice on my first trip to Italy (my first European trip, so it already was magical) and loved it, which was high praise, since I'd only been studying Italian for a few months, on my own. As I remember, it's the story of a man in an old actors home who wins a lottery, and runs away with a pretty worker from the home. He is taken advantage of, I remember, but exactly how...? I have looked for this film on video, and I think United Artists may offer it, but perhaps only in Europe. I would love to see it again...Ugo Tognazzi was a wonderful actor, and expressed many things simultaneously, as he did in La Cage Aux Folles. Lucky you if you can see the movie. I was in love with my Primo [Italian] Amore at the time, so perhaps memory has sweetened recollection. But I think it was lots of fun to watch.

I would like to add a simple comment.

Italians, who are optimists, aesthetics, and see the world, and the life, as a victory of "il bello" over "il brutto" (the beautiful over the ugly), called this movie "Il Primo Amore" (The First Love).

French, who are pessimists, ethics, and see the world, and the life, as struggle between "le bien" and "le mal" (the good and the bad), called this movie "Le Dernier Amour" (The Last Love).

This was a story of a young woman and an old man: her First Love, and his Last Love.

A Must!