Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
Cinematography
Lake Garda locations so gorgeous you'll forgive the melodrama.
Acting
Olivia Hussey's screen debut—she was 14 and already devastating.
Director
Delmer Daves
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Olivia Hussey's first film role; she later played Juliet in Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet. Delmer Daves literally discovered THE Juliet playing a bitter child.
The film captures a specific post-war fantasy: British middle-class women escaping to Italy for passion, while their children represent the suffocating respectability they fled. The villa itself is the real fantasy object.
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