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Release Date: 25 November, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
My House in Umbria Reviews
Everyone feels at home in Italy
Perhaps I wouldn't have liked it as much if I wasn't so fond of Italy.
Its plot revolves around an explosion in a train car. The survivors of the accident are invited to stay in another of the survivor's homes... a house in Umbria, surprisingly enough. The owner of the house is a older British woman (Maggie Smith) who's a bodice-ripper writer and she's always writing a story in her head. When someone speaks to her, she thinks of it as dialogue and acts out her life the way someone in one of her novels would act.
I especially enjoyed, quite nostalgically, the bit where the group travelled to Siena and sat for a while on the steps in front of the Duomo.
I wouldn't buy it, because I'm not sure it would stand up to many viewings, but it's surely worth seeing once or twice.
Deeply sick
This is a deeply sick film. The heroine, played by Maggie Smith, is older, has been sexually abused throughout her life, and is now the author of trashy books. On a train an explosion rips through her compartment, miraculously saving some and killing others. (Maggie's severe facial wounds heal apparently within days, leaving no scars.) Three survivors, including a little girl, come to live in the Italian villa owned by the heroine. Then the girl's uncle comes to take away the psychologically damaged waif to America. The story then grows intensely dark and unappealing, as the heroine drowns herself in alcohol and the American turns out to be an utterly repulsive and insensitive jerk. What a waste of Maggie Smith's great talent. HBO was the perfect place for this film. IFC should soon run it.
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