Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kristin Scott Thomas | ... | Mary Panton | |
Sean Penn | ... | Rowley Flint | |
Anne Bancroft | ... | Princess San Ferdinando | |
James Fox | ... | Sir Edgar Swift | |
Jeremy Davies | ... | Karl Richter | |
Derek Jacobi | ... | Lucky Leadbetter | |
Massimo Ghini | ... | Beppino Leopardi | |
Dudley Sutton | ... | Harold Atkinson | |
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Lorenza Indovina | ... | Nina |
Roger Hammond | ... | Colin Mackenzie | |
Clive Merrison | ... | Archibald Grey | |
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Linda Spurrier | ... | Hilda Grey |
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Ben Aris | ... | Col. Trail |
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Anne Ridler | ... | Lady Trail |
Ann Bell | ... | Beryl Bryson (as Anne Bell) |
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this tale of death, seduction, blackmail, and theft amongst British and Americans in Florence, Italy in the turbulent days just before World War II. Written by jojo.acapulco@gmail.com
If you like stories about the British upper class and their foibles abroad, you'll enjoy"Up At the Villa." (What a rotten title!) Edward Fox is the perfect gentleman (isn't he always?) Sean Penn is the perfect cad. (Isn't he always?) And Anne Bancroft notches up yet another role as the faded bitch. (Doesn't she do anything else these days?) It's a pretty straight and predictable love story/murder who done it, except we know all along that the victim "done it" to himself. It's in something the same genre as "Tea With Mussolini" with lovely shots of Florence and a faithful recreation of fascist Italy.