TY - BOOK AU - Philip Haas AU - Bancroft,Anne AU - Derek Jacobi AU - James Fox AU - Jeremy Davies AU - Massimo Ghini AU - Sean Penn AU - Kristin Scott Thomas TI - Up at the Villa AV - DVD 002868 PY - 2000/// CY - UK, USA PB - Intermedia Films KW - Drama N1 - Over a handful of days in 1938, a penniless English widow, on vacation near Florence, considers the; W. Somerset Maugham N2 - Over a handful of days in 1938, a penniless English widow, on vacation near Florence, considers the marriage proposal of an aging British aristocrat who is the newly-appointed governor of Bengal, accepts a pistol that he presses on her for safety, takes pity on an Austrian refugee, stands up to a Fascist police chief, and gets in harm's way with an American playboy. After a good deed results in tragedy, she must choose between dependability and love, between her reputation and her feelings. Even that choice doesn't work out as she imagined ER -