Romeo and Juliet

Thank you

... eh, Olivia Hussey is always associated, will always be associated with Romeo and Juliet.

But what, what was it about Olivia Hussey and her story that made you want to tell this film?

Hmm.

Well, I mean, when I was a teenage boy, like a lot of boys, I had a poster of Olivia Hussey on my bedroom wall, and, uh, from Romeo and Juliet.

I think it was, it was the balcony scene with, uh, with Leonard Whiting.

Um, and I just thought she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.

Because of course she went from that, jumped into one of my favorite films of all time called All the Right Noises, and I actually have a poster of that on my wall.

think.

So he worked in Romeo and Juliet.

Yeah.

with Franco Zeffirelli who's the director who's just like a very flamboyantly gay director who made an approach very similar almost verbatim to what Uncle Monty does to him it's really interesting because I was listening to this podcast that was like very like and I'm sorry like I'm gonna come across as like an angry feminist here allow me this is this podcast this is what I do every week um but There's a podcast who was describing this and being like, gosh, the horror of what had happened to him really drove him to write this film.

I mean, the, their, their love story is, is a good backdrop for the movie.

It really kinda reminds me, and a- again, I was, I was watching this again with my wife on the couch, not really paying attention but watching it, and she was like, "Oh my goodness, this is so much reminding me of the 1968 Romeo and Juliet." It's like, it's very hardly coded influenced by that famous, you know, 1968 Romeo and Juliet by...

What's the Italian director's name? I can't remember.

I know what you're ta- I, hmm.

The one that was first-

Can't see it

... famous for casting Romeo and Juliet as actual teenagers.

That was-

OK, so Olivia Hussey is in this film.

Olivia Hussey is known for playing Juliet in Zeffirelli's, I think it's 1968's Romeo and Juliet.

And she was like 15 years old in it.

And she was in Jesus of Nazareth.

A world of shining hope for you and me

Johnny Mathis and his take on A Time for Us, the love theme from the film Romeo and Juliet, 1969.

I believe that did some chart action for him on the adult contemporary charts.

Let's check.

Always great.

We got a long list of movies that we're going to go over.

But I figure we can start, you know, overall Toronto trip.

How did everybody feel? I feel like we had a good Airbnb.

That's true.

Yeah, like, come on.

Like, you know, we got to treat TIFF like our patrons and, like, criticize their movies.

All right.

The great Olivia Hussey.

From Black Christmas, Romeo and Juliet.

Not that role.

Oh, not that one.