 "Blame it on the Bellboy "
starring Dudley Moore, Richard Griffiths, Bronson Pinchot (1995).
Comedy. Mistaken addresses and identities
"The Comfort of Strangers " starring Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, directed by Paul Schrader (1991). Dramatic. Screenplay by Harold Pinter adapted from a novel by Ian McEwan. An English couple spends an holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. One evening, they lose their way looking for a restaurant, and a stranger invites them to accompany him. He plies them with wine and grotesque stories from his childhood. They leave disoriented, physically ill, and morally repelled. But, next day, when the stranger sees them in the piazza, they accept an invitation to his sumptuous flat.
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"The Story of Us ", by Rob Rainer, starring Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim
Matheson (Usa, 1999)
"Summertime" (see Summertime - Criterion Collection ) starring Katherine
Hepburn; directed by David Lean (1955). Interiors shot in Pensione Accademia
Villa Maravegie
"Senso ", starring Alida Valli
and Farley Granger; directed by Luchino Visconti (1954). Dramatic. A CLASSIC - Venice
at the times of Austrian occupation, 1866, in the last days. A performance of Il Trovatore ends up in confusion due to an anti-Austrian demonstration, organised by Count Ussoni. His cousin Countess Serpieri falls in love with vile Austrian Lieutenant Franz Mahler, but the times are changing
"Death in Venice ", starring Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli; directed by Luchino Visconti (1971). Dramatic. A CLASSIC - Based on the Thomas Mann novel; meticulous in recreating a Venetian atmosphere. Avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to the Venetian shore in search of repose. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy on vacation with his family. The onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them and represents the corruption compromising all ideals.
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"Don't Look Now "
with Donald Sutherland

"Les enfants du siecle" by D.
Kurys (Juliette Binoche, Benoit Maginel, Stefano Dionisi) 1999
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