Virna Lisi

The year is 1572 and France is ruled by the Catholic Catherine de Medici (Virna Lisi). Her eldest son, King Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade), is next to her, but he is too weak and too unpredictable. Catherine hopes that one day his younger brother, and her favorite son, Anjou (Pascal Greggory), will become King, and encourages the youngest brother, Alencon (Julien Rassam), to follow his steps. The beautiful and sexually insatiable Margot (Isabelle Adjani) lives in the shadows of her brothers.

A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.

A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.

During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash.

Peter Baldwin (The Ghost, The Weekend Murders) stars as Bernard, a depressed novelist who sets off in search of his old flame Tilde (Virna Lisi, La Reine Margot), a beautiful maid who works at a remote lakeside hotel. Bernard is warmly greeted by the hotel owner Enrico (Salvo Randone, Fellini's Satyricon) and his daughter Irma (Valentina Cortese, Thieves Highway, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire), but Tilde has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Bernard undertakes an investigation and is soon plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder…

"Umberto Orsini rimette in ordine le tessere della propria storia. Nei lunedì di riposo, decide di annotare ricordi, riflessioni, emozioni vissute. Si compone così il romanzo di una vita: dalle campagne novaresi ai palcoscenici dei maggiori teatri italiani, dal 'rischio' di diventare un notaio di provincia a un viaggio in treno con Orson Welles, ai film di Luchino Visconti, alle partite a tennis con Vittorio Gassman. Orsini toglie la maschera e si racconta, lasciandoci entrare nella sua officina - i segni sui copioni da portare in scena, il dialogo con i grandi registi, da Fellini a Zeffirelli, da Patroni Griffi a Ronconi, la complicità con i colleghi - dal 'maestro' Romolo Valli a Marcello Mastroianni, da Rossella Falk e Virna Lisi a Charlotte Rampling. E ancora: la fama televisiva (i Karamazov visti da quindici milioni di spettatori a puntata, l'invenzione casuale di un programma di cucina, le copertine dei rotocalchi), la formazione di una propria compagnia..

From back-breaking labour in the coal mines, Tyvian Jones, a masculine and crude man from Wales, finds himself among the artistic and glamorous people at the Venice Film Festival