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...Battle of the Villa Fiorita...
...Wednesday bridge luncheon. But breathless rhetoric apparently is the norm for sensible English matrons who desert home and family to live in guilty splendor with pianists on the shores of Italy's Lago di Garda. Maureen and Rossano have no sooner snuggled into his sumptuous Villa Fiorita than her pint-sized son and daughter (Martin Stephens, Elizabeth Dear) arrive. They have paid their fare to Italy by selling the girl's pet pony, but they fully intend to put Mama back in harness. Soon they are joined by Brazzi's convent-bred daughter (Olivia Hussey...
...Villa Fiorita becomes a battleground so fraught with emotional crises that Director Delmer Daves, from the sound of things, must have hired extra musicians to bring pathos to a crescendo. The kids scheme, pray, go on a hunger strike, and occasionally throw up as part of a campaign that Brazzi decries as "legally and morally wrong." But children know best: in such strained and saccharine circumstances, a touch of nausea is inevitable...
...Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden...
...Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden...