A CHARMING, WEALTHY ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. TWO BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. IF IT ONLY TAKES A MOMENT TO FALL IN LOVE, IMAGINE WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN…
In 1937, Miss Bentley (Vanessa Redgrave), a British spinster, spends the summer in a villa on Lake Como; she falls for a major (Edward Fox), but heās nevertheless charmed by a young American, Miss Beaumont (Uma Thurman). A pleasant, unremarkable little film from an equally unremarkable director; it might as well have been a TV movie. The story is old-fashioned and itās hard to see what Miss Bentley finds appealing in the haughty, wooden major, but Redgrave is excellent as the freethinking spinster. Nice to see Vittorio Gassmanās son Alessandro as a charmer called Vittorio (of course).
1995-U.S. 94 min. Color.Ā Directed byĀ John Irvin.Ā Novella:Ā H.E. Bates.Ā Cast:Ā Vanessa Redgrave (Miss Bentley), Edward Fox (Major Wilshaw), Uma Thurman (Miss Beaumont), Alida Valli, Alessandro Gassman.