TEA WITH MUSSOLINI (1999)
TEA WITH MUSSOLINI This autobiographical memoir, about an Italian boy befriended and tutored by grandmotherly English ladies in Fascist Italy just before World War II, is far off the usual 1999 movie menu. It mixes visual beauty, social nostalgia and satire, genteel femininity, and ironic period intrigues and heroics. The boy (as well as the […]







