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Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: Adapted from a Somerset Maugham novella, the film is set in a 1938 Florence provincial town struggling to maintain its equilibrium as Mussolini's Fascists are consolidating their power.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 31
  2. Negative: 1 out of 31
  1. The story has old-fashioned characters and situations, and Haas has sensibly filmed it in an old-fashioned way, stressing visual appeal rather than the story's sordid undertones. The acting is excellent, too.
  2. Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    60
    Despite the prestigious talents involved, this is strictly "Minor Piece Theatre."
  3. 35
    The total lack of sexual chemistry between them doesn't help. Frankly, I'd rather see Scott Thomas play a nun than sit through another one of these turgid romancers.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 1 out of 1

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