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| “Il Mondo” | |
|---|---|
| Single by Jimmy Fontana | |
| B-side | “Allora Sì” |
| Released | April 1965 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Label | RCA |
| Songwriter(s) | Carlo Pes, Lilli Greco, Gianni Meccia and Jimmy Fontana |
“Il Mondo” (‘The World’) is a song composed by Carlo Pes, Lilli Greco, Gianni Meccia and Jimmy Fontana, and performed by Jimmy Fontana. Arrangements were from Ennio Morricone. The song premiered at the 1965 edition of Un disco per l’estate.
The single peaked at first place for four weeks between July and October 1965 on the Italian hit parade. It was the most successful song of Fontana.
The song was adapted in English by Robert Mellin with the title “My World”, and recorded by The Ray Charles Singers,
A French version titled “Un monde fait pour nous” was recorded by Hervé Vilard
and by Richard Anthony.
Fontana himself took a Spanish version, titled “El Mundo”, to the top of the Spanish charts in 1965. The Spanish version was also covered by popular Cuban singer Roberto Faz and Mexican singer Javier Solis.
The song was later covered by several artists including Gianni Morandi,
In 2011, Sergio Dalma included a version of the song on Via Dalma II, his second collection of Italian songs performed in Spanish. Issued as the first single from the disc, “El Mundo” rose to No. 10 on the official chart released by Productores de Música de España. The song also achieved success in Latin America, particularly Argentina, thanks to its inclusion in the soap opera (telenovela) Dulce Amor.
My World (Il Mondo) – Instrumental cover by Dave Monk
Ennio Morricone/Jimmy Fontana – Il Mondo (Instrumental)
MUSICA ROMANTICA INSTRUMENTAL, EL MUNDO / IL MONDO
“Il Mondo” was also used in several films, including Richard Curtis‘ About Time and Philippe Le Guay‘s Bicycling with Molière and the opening title sequence of the Italian television miniseries Il miracolo.
Song featured in the film “About Time”
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| About Time | |
|---|---|
| Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Richard Curtis |
| Written by | Richard Curtis |
| Produced by | Tim BevanEric FellnerNicky Kentish Barnes |
| Starring | Domhnall Gleeson Rachel McAdams Bill Nighy Tom Hollander Margot Robbie |
| Cinematography | John Guleserian |
| Edited by | Mark Day |
| Music by | Nick Laird-Clowes |
| Production companies | Working Title FilmsRelativity Media |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release dates | 27 June 2013 (EIFF)4 September 2013 (United Kingdom) |
| Running time | 123 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $88.5 million |
About Time is a 2013 British science fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, and Bill Nighy. The film is about a young man with the ability to time travel who tries to change his past in hopes of improving his future. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2013. The film received positive reviews from critics. At the box office, it grossed $87.1 million against a $12 million budget. The film was dedicated to actor Richard Griffiths, who died a few months before the film’s release, marking it his final film appearance.
Production
By CC BY-SA 3.0, Link The grade II listed Porthpean House acted as Tim’s family home
By Curtis’s own admission the conception of the idea “was a slow growth”. The genesis of the idea came when Curtis was eating lunch with a friend and the subject of happiness came up. Upon admitting he was not truly happy in life, the conversation turned towards him describing an ideal day. From here Curtis realised that the day of the lunch, for him, constituted such a day, which led to him deciding to write a film about “how you achieve happiness in ordinary life”. Thinking that the concept was too “simple” he decided to add a time travel element to the film.
Although the production contracted out various effect houses to try to make the time travelling effects feel like more of a spectacle, they found the resulting work “just completely wrong” tonally and instead focused on a more low-key approach. Curtis has opined “that in the end it turns out to be a kind of anti–time travel time travel movie. It uses all the time travel stuff but without it feeling like it’s a science fiction thing particularly or without it feeling that time travel can actually solve your life.”
Curtis is primarily known as a screenwriter, and About Time was only his third ever film as a director (plus one television short); he said the film was likely to be his last film as director, but that he will continue in the film industry.
Zooey Deschanel had been in talks for the role of Mary, but ultimately, the role went to McAdams.
Release
The film’s initial release date (10 May 2013) was pushed back to 1 November 2013. It was premiered on 8 August 2013 as part of the Film4 Summer Screen outdoor cinema series at the historic Somerset House in London. It was released in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2013. It received a limited US release on 1 November, with a general release on 8 November 2013.
The film became a surprise hit in South Korea, where it was watched by more than 3 million people, one of the highest numbers among the foreign romantic comedy movies released in Korea. It grossed a total of $23,434,443 there, its highest country total.
Reception
About Time received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 69%, based on 160 reviews, with an average rating of 6.36/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, “Beautifully filmed and unabashedly sincere, About Time finds director Richard Curtis at his most sentimental.” Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 55 out of 100, based on reviews from 34 critics, indicating “mixed reviews”.
Catherine Shoard of The Guardian compared the film to Groundhog Day noting it “is about as close to home as a homage can get without calling in the copyright team” and describes Domhnall Gleeson as a “ginger Hugh Grant“, which “at first, is unnerving; as About Time marches on, Gleeson’s innate charm gleams through and this weird disconnection becomes quite compelling.” Shoard gave the film 2 stars out of 5. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph praised the comic timing of McAdams and Gleeson, but criticised the film, comparing it to a quilt, calling it “soft, frayed at the edges, and oh so comfortable” and gives it 3 stars out of 5.
Leslie Felperin of Variety called the film “reassuringly bland” and says there is sense of déjà vu especially for anyone who has seen The Time Traveler’s Wife, also co-starring McAdams. Unlike that film, she has no knowledge of his powers in About Time, resulting in a “fundamental lack of honesty in their relationship”. Felperin noted British reverse snobbery would put many off this and other Curtis films, but that this would be less of a problem among American Anglophiles and those willing to suspend disbelief, taking the characters as British “versions of Woody Allen‘s Manhattanites (but with less angst)”. Felperin praised the chemistry of the leading couple “that keeps the film aloft” and the supporting cast, while also criticising the stock characters as being too familiar.
Critics have pointed to the film’s plot holes relating to time travel; how big or how many plot holes varied with the reviewer. Kate Erbland of Film School Rejects noted: “the rules and limitations of Tim’s gift aren’t exactly hard and fast, and the final third of the film is rife with complications that never get quite explained. Rules that previously applied suddenly don’t apply … the time travel rules aren’t exactly tight and are occasionally confusing”. Megan Gibson, writing in Time magazine, said that science fiction fans would be put off by “gaping time-travel plot-holes”, again suggesting that Tim’s father’s rules are repeatedly broken. Mark Kermode agreed that Curtis “sets up his rules of temporal engagement, only to break them willy-nilly whenever the prospect of an extra hug rears its head”. Other critics who agreed include Steve Cummins of the Irish Post (the film is “riddled with plot holes”), Matthew Turner of View London (an “unsightly pile-up of plot holes and logic problems”), and a reviewer from The Independent, who called the explanation of time travel “shockingly inadequate” and asserted that “Curtis keeps leaving questions unanswered – time and time again”.
Soundtrack
Track listing
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “The Luckiest” (About Time version) | Ben Folds | 4:04 |
| 2. | “How Long Will I Love You“ | Jon Boden, Sam Sweeney & Ben Coleman | 2:46 |
| 3. | “Mid Air” | Paul Buchanan | 2:28 |
| 4. | “At the River” (Radio Edit) | Groove Armada | 3:10 |
| 5. | “Friday I’m In Love“ | The Cure | 3:34 |
| 6. | “Back To Black” (Explicit) | Amy Winehouse | 4:00 |
| 7. | “Gold in them Hills“ | Ron Sexsmith | 3:31 |
| 8. | “The About Time Theme” | Nick Laird-Clowes | 2:22 |
| 9. | “Into My Arms“ | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 4:13 |
| 10. | “Il Mondo“ | Jimmy Fontana | 2:42 |
| 11. | “Golborne Road” | Nick Laird-Clowes | 2:16 |
| 12. | “Push the Button“ | Sugababes | 3:37 |
| 13. | “All the Things She Said” (Original Edited) | t.A.T.u. | 3:35 |
| 14. | “When I Fall In Love” | Barbar Gough, Sagat Guirey, Andy Hamill & Tim Herniman | 3:02 |
| 15. | “Spiegel im Spiegel“ | Arvo Pärt | 9:24 |
| 16. | “How Long Will I Love You?“ | Ellie Goulding | 2:34 |
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