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- 2000
- PG-13
- USA Films
- 1 h 55 m
- 2000
- PG-13
- USA Films
- 1 h 55 m
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.
Directed By: Philip Haas
Written By: W. Somerset Maugham, Belinda Haas
- 2000
- PG-13
- USA Films
- 1 h 55 m
- 2000
- PG-13
- USA Films
- 1 h 55 m
Up at the Villa
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6.6
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.
Directed By: Philip Haas
Written By: W. Somerset Maugham, Belinda Haas
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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39% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
57
39% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
58% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
A refined, tasteful film about pure, hard lust.
It has some wonderful moments and a handful of delicious Maughamian characters.
There are a few interesting moments, but basically Up at the Villa is dangerously short of sympathetic characters.
The characters are so conventional that the movie has nowhere interesting to go, even when a corpse complicates affairs.
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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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.6
75% Positive
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6 Ratings
13% Mixed
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13% Negative
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