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TITLE Light in the Piazza (1962)

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DISABILITY Learning difficulty

COUNTRY UK

LENGTH 101

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Guy Green

CAST Olivia De Havilland

Rossano Brazzi

Yvette Mimieux

George Hamilton

Barry Sullivan

NOTES Mother attempts to marry off her daughter who has learning

difficulties. This film is rated high elsewhere. I consider it

badly acted (look at the cast), badly scripted (even though the

writer is Julius Epstein) and just a glossy romance set in a

beautiful location. Yvette Mimieux acts a beautiful woman with a mental age of ten following an accident during her childhood. She is totally inadequate in conveying this.

From the novel by Elizabeth Spencer.

 


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