Summary: Somerset Maugham was a master teller of stories about superficial people who are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck. His novella Up at the Villa is a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II. The film, despite an outstanding cast including Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Bancroft, Sean Penn and Derek Jacobi, is strangely mannered and rather flat, more like a waltz than the tango Maugham might have had in mind. (imdb)

Genre: Drama

Country: UK, USA

Directed By: Philip Haas

Written By: W. Somerset Maugham, Belinda Haas

Starring: Anne Bancroft, Sean Penn, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Davies, Kristin Scott Thomas, James Fox, Roger Hammond, Dudley Sutton, Barbara Hicks

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