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English. Up at the Villa is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Philip Haas and starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Bancroft, James Fox, Derek Jacobi, and Sean Penn. It is based on the 1941 novella Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham.
Up at the Villa is a 1941 novella by William Somerset Maugham about a young widow caught among three men: her suitor, her one-night stand, and her confidant. A fast-paced story, Up at the Villa incorporates elements of the crime and suspense novel.
May 19, 2000 · Up at the Villa: Directed by Philip Haas. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft, James Fox. A widow finds choosing a new husband might not be her choice at all, as the actions of her various prospects confine her freedom.
May 5, 2000 · Philip Haas' "Up at the Villa" is based on Maugham's novella about a group of British expats in Florence, enjoying their last days of mannered sloth before the outbreak of World War II.
6,977 ratings726 reviews. In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days.
W. Somerset Maugham. Heinemann London Melbourne Toronto 1953. From Maugham's 1953 preface to vol. III of his Selected Novels. Up at the Villa is a novelette. I had long had in mind its central episode, that in which a woman of uncommon beauty gives herself to a man she hardly knows, not out of love or lust, but out of pity.
May 5, 2000 · Surrounded by the lush countryside of Italy, Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas), a middle-aged and once-affluent widow, seems to have her financial future secured again when she attracts the notice...
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