Video Capsule Review
UP AT THE VILLA
Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn (2000, USA, 115
mins., PG-13, also on DVD)
Credits
Rated: PG-13; Genres: Historical, Romance; With: Kristin Scott-Thomas and Sean Penn; Distributor: Intermedia Films
B-
Scott Thomas revels in the role of a veddy proper English widow tempted by a good-time American (Penn) in pre-WWII Florence. Based on a W. Somerset Maugham novella, Villa is stuffed with lovely scenery, incredible hats, and stifled passion, but it all seems a little too Brit-lit familiar, and even when it heats up, just a touch cold. B-
Posted Oct 27, 2000
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