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A powerful and atmospheric Zeffirelli film, following some British and American women in Italy from 1935 into the war period. There is plenty of opportunity for transatlantic cultural friction between the two groups of women.
Paul Chequer plays Wilfred, a delicate youth who goes with the women when they are interned, dressed as a girl, Miss Lucy, to avoid arrest by the Italians. For a while nothing is made of this except mild discomfort on his part. However there is a party eventually, at which Lily Tomlin's dyke character Georgie dances with him, Georgie taking the lead.
The final section of the film isn't 100% believable, but this is a film about feelings, not about war.
HF January 2003
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