Berlinguer, I Love You Berlinguer, I Love You Berlinguer ti voglio bene (internationally released as Berlinguer, I Love You) is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It is the debut film of both Bertolucci and Roberto Benigni. It is based on the stage play "Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia", that the same Bertolucci wrote and directed in 1975 and in which Benigni played the character of Mario Cioni, a character he later resumed in the variety television "Onda libera". The title quotes Cioni's declaration of love for Enrico Berlinguer, then leader of the Italian Communist Party. Mario is
I Honestly Love You I Honestly Love You "I Honestly Love You" (first released in Australia as "I Love You, I Honestly Love You", per its chorus) was a worldwide pop hit single for Olivia Newton-John in 1974. The song was Newton-John's first number-one single in the United States and Canada. Released on the "Long Live Love" album in the United Kingdom by EMI, it was eventually released on the album "If You Love Me, Let Me Know" in the United States on MCA. The song was written by Jeff Barry and the Australian composer Peter Allen; the latter recorded it around the same