Avanti
Date: 1972
Director: Billy Wilder
Production Company: Jalem Productions, Mirisch Corporation, Phalanx Productions
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews, Gianfranco Barra
Location(s): Ischia, Sorrento, Capri
Region(s): Italy
Storyline:
A secret ten year affair is ended by a car crash but the son and daughter, arriving to collect their perents’ bodies, consider the imitation of history. SJ
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- Capture 1
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Lemmon takes a boat from Naples after a few stock shots of his landing in Rome.
- Capture 2
- 27 Apr 2014
Arriving at the port in the northeast of Ischia: Lungomare Iasolino, Ischia Porto.
Right at the southernmost dip in the port on the via Iasolino. Google/SJ
- Capture 3
- 27 Apr 2014
Mills at the harbour, a pan to the left from above.
Still a sign for Terme Radioattive! Google/SJ
- Capture 4
- 27 Apr 2014
The hotel minibus transports Lemmon to his hotel.
Corso Angelo Rizzoli where it meets Via Guardiola above Lacco Ameno, Ishcia. Google/SJ
- Capture 5
- 22 Oct 2014
And arrives at the Hotel Grand Excelsior Vittoria, Sorrento.
The awnings have gone but this remains the same. SJ
- Capture 6
- 22 Oct 2014
A greeting from the hotel manager Revill.
Well this is the current reception but I think I'm in the wrong place as the windows don't match. Curses. I shall have to enjoy another 8.50 Euro beer on my next visit. SJ
- Capture 7
- 29 Aug 2014
Revill takes Lemmon to the mortuary, actually the Chiesa del Soccorso in Forio, Ischia on the western end of via Cristoforo Colombo.
Photographed in 2004, but inches from an identical match. Thanks to Norman Daley.
- Capture 8
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Lemmon and Mills at the mortuary.
- Capture 9
- 24 Oct 2014
On the hotel terrace back in Sorrento.
The windows match as do the olive trees after 40 years. SJ
- Capture 10
- 22 Oct 2014
Mills conducts the orchestra on the terrace with a commanding view of the northern end of the Sorrentine peninsular.
Now. SJ
- Capture 11
- 24 Oct 2014
Down on the beach below Sorrento west of the Marina Piccola.
And east of the Marina Grande. About the right place, note the small cliff to the left of Lemmon's head. SJ
- Capture 12
- 24 Oct 2014
Mills strips off while Lemmon gathers up her discards, before joining her.
As above. SJ
- Capture 13
- 23 Oct 2015
I think that sign reads Excelsior Vittoria, but that hotel is much further to the east.
And this is a sky view of the path (centre) he's running down taken from outside the Hotel Bellevue Syrene. And it looks like the Hotel Imperial Tramontano private path which means the above nows could be one pier too east. In any case access seems tricky at this time of year. SJ
- Capture 14
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Unidentified.
- Capture 15
- 22 Oct 2014
via Santa Maria della Pieta, Sorrento.
Yep, this leads to the Piazza Tasso. SJ
- Capture 16
- 22 Oct 2014
Coming into the Piazza Tasso.
Now. SJ
- Capture 17
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This could be the cinema delle vittorie in Forio, Ischia, which had only just opened. Love the instant dating of this shot. A modern shot of the cinema, though, does not match.
- Capture 18
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Mills buys lots of ices for herself, much to the disappointment of the expectant locals.
- Capture 19
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Ah, an Ischia clue there!
- Capture 20
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Mills ascends.
- Capture 21
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Now, that's some climb! One can just make out the rock Fungo, a mushroom shaped rock eroded by tides, under Mills' head. Lacco Ameno, Ischia.
- Capture 22
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- Capture 23
- 27 Apr 2014
Chiesa di San Vito, via San Vito, Forio, Ischia
Looking north on San Vito with the via Bassa Capella to the left. The best Google can do here: replacement urgently needed. Google/SJ
- Capture 24
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Laying loved ones to rest.
- Capture 25
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Suddenly we're in Capri; the Faro di Carena, the heel's lighthouse at the south-westernmost point of the island. This was also seen in Another Simple Favour.
- Capture 26
- 28 Jul 2021
An aerial shot of Capri. The heliport is merely the carpark.
The Faro di Punta Carena (in the south-west corner of Capri) taken by Hamilton McMurray who was staying at Anacapri at the time and walking around the island on the Sentiero dei Fortini. The view is from that footpath, probably on the Pineta del Faro del Punta Carena section. OK it's from April 2010 but who travels nowadays? SJ