Letters to Juliet

* from Summit Entertainment

I'm a sucker for romantic movies.  Letters to Juliet was especially enjoyable when I realized that the long-lost lover that Vanessa Redgrave's character was looking for was played by Franco Nero.  The back story is that in 1966, Redgrave and Nero met on the set of Camelot (one of my favorite musicals) and thereafter had a son in 1969.  They didn't get married until much much later, and this little piece of real-life trivia somehow mirrors the storyline of the characters they play in Letters to Juliet.  Imagine that!

Franco Nero sings If Ever I Would Leave You to Vanessa Redgrave in Camelot, and the song could still be applicable to their characters in Letters to Juliet:

If ever I would leave you,

It wouldn't be in summer.

Seeing you in summer, I never would go!

Your hair streaked with sun-light,

Your lips red as flame,

Your face with a luster, 

That puts gold to shame!

But if I'd ever leave you,

It couldn't be in autumn.

How I'd leave in autumn I never will know!

I've seen how you sparkle,

When fall nips the air,

I know you in autumn,

And I must be there.

And could I leave you,

Running merrily through the snow?

Or on a wintry evening,

When you catch the fire's glow?

If ever I would leave you

How could it be in spring-time?

Knowing how in spring I'm bewitched by you so?

Oh, no! not in spring-time!

Summer, winter or fall!

No, never could I leave you at all!