Terrible title, though it is the original title, so take it up with Somerset Maugham.
Film may be husband and wife affair with Belinda Haas adapting original story and editing and Philip directing. I have looked at several web pages to understand their relationship but no one is obliging. They made Angels and Insects.
1930s Florence. Um, Kristin Scott Thomas (not a horrible bitch for a change) is intending to marry safe James Fox and become wife to Consul of Bengal or somewhere, then on one eventful night meets louche American Sean Penn and disenfranchised Austrian Jeremy Davies and The Story takes over.
She is a most unfortunate character, so I was pleased that she managed to take control of the situation, which reminds me of the same author's The Letter.
Film feels a little flat and is overlit in the night scenes (Maurizio Calvesi); music by Pino Donaggio. With Anne Bancroft, Derek Jacobi, Massimo Ghini and that guy who was in Porridge (in a non-role - in fact there are rather a few non-roles).
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