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Synopsis
Closing Night
A still-stunning Sophia Loren, a never-more-subtle Giancarlo Giannini and
Lina Wertmuller are reunited for this plush 19th-century costume drama,
based on the popular novel by Maria Orsini Natale. Francesca (Loren) was a
commoner whose beauty so entranced Prince Giordano Montorsi (Giannini) that
he took her hand in marriage. The couple kept a vow to the Virgin to adopt
an orphan if their youngest son, Federico, survived an illness. Visiting a
convent, they select the angelic, nine-year-old Nunziata. Now grown,
Federico (Italian hearthrob Raoul Bova) and his adopted sister (the luscious
Claudia Gerini) have the hots for each other. Appalled, the hardheaded
businesswoman Francesca makes more profitable marriage plans for her
daughter, but the equally savvy schemer Nunziata has her own ideas.
My Impressions of this Film
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Credits:
Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Run Time: 125 minutes
This Film can be viewed at the New Italian Film Festival