You know - Hitchcock - played Anthony Perkins. Marple. The Trench..
Micheál Richardson and his artist Dad Liam Neeson return to childhood home in Tuscany to do it up and sell it. Turns out his mother's ghost inhabits the place. Well, not literally. There's also a useful local restaurateur Valeria Bilello, and an estate agent, Lindsay Duncan. And a Vespa. And a modern art wall.
I told Q I thought it somehow failed to connect. She told me, somewhat unhelpfully, that she'd rather be in Tuscany than here. And, more helpfully, that Richardson is Neeson's son, and thus story of prematurely deceased mother is of singular relevance.
(We then saw a Zoom interview with father and son on Graham Norton. Son made a point of saying his name was pronounced 'Mee-haul', then later his father called him 'Michael'??!)
Photographed by Mike Eley, edited by Mark Day and Anthony Boys.
The film they watch in the piazza is not I Vitelloni but another about young men in a small town, I Bisilischi, the debut of Lina Wertmuller (1963), with a Morricone score.
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