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A Little Night Music (film)

A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Harold Prince
Produced by Elliott Kastner
Screenplay by Hugh Wheeler
Story by Ingmar Bergman
Based on A Little Night Music
by Hugh Wheeler
Starring Elizabeth Taylor
Diana Rigg
Len Cariou
Lesley-Anne Down
Music by Stephen Sondheim, Jonathan Tunick
Cinematography Arthur Ibbetson
Edited by John Jympson
Production
company
Sascha-Verleih
S&T-Film Berlin
Distributed by New World Pictures
Release date
  • September 30, 1977 (1977-09-30) (United States)
Running time
124 minutes
Country United States
West Germany
Austria
Language English
Budget $6 million or $7.2 million
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music Soundtrack.jpeg
Soundtrack album by Stephen Sondheim
Released 1977
Recorded 1974–1977
Genre Soundtrack
Length 49:07
Label Masterworks Broadway
Producer Jonathan Tunick

A Little Night Music is a 1977 film adaptation of the musical A Little Night Music. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, and Lesley-Anne Down. It also features Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, and Laurence Guittard who reprised their Broadway roles. The film was directed by Harold Prince.

Fredrik Egerman (Len Cariou) is very happy in his marriage to an 18-year-old virgin, Anne (Lesley-Anne Down). However, Anne has nervously protected her virginity for the whole eleven months of marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress, Desirée Armfeldt (Elizabeth Taylor). Desirée, who is getting tired of her life, is thinking of settling down, and sets her sights on Fredrik, despite his marriage, and her own married lover Count Carl-Magnus Mittelheim (Laurence Guittard). She gets her mother to invite the Egermans to her country estate for the weekend. But when Carl-Magnus and his wife, Charlotte (Diana Rigg), appear, too, things begin to get farcical, and the night must smile for the third time before all the lovers are united.

Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for the film. He wrote the lyrics for the "Night Waltz" theme ("Love Takes Time") and wrote an entirely new version of "The Glamorous Life", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

The setting for the film was moved from Sweden to Austria, and was filmed on location.

The film received mostly negative reviews, with much being made of Taylor's wildly fluctuating weight from scene to scene. Some critics talked more positively of the film, with Variety calling it "an elegant looking, period romantic charade". The film has received critical praise for Diana Rigg's performance. The film currently holds an 11% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes.


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