Up at the Villa

UK 1999, 111 minutes
Dir. Philip Haas
Rating: [M]
Genres: Drama

Topics: Period 1930s.

Feat. Sean Penn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Bancroft

Aroview: Adrift in pre-fascist 1930s Italy, widowed Englishwoman Kirsten Scott Thomas lives on the generosity of her well-heeled peers before she's suddenly presented with several prospects for marriage and love, incl. James Fox and Sean Penn.

Stylishly adapted from the Somerset Maugham novel by the dir. of ANGELS AND INSECTS, the camera glories in the gorgeous Florentine and Tuscan locations, while working-up a moderately suspenseful web of blackmail, dead bodies and opportunism. Also stars Anne Bancroft, Derek Jacobi.