"A story of civilized disobedience"
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
แมกกี สมิธ
Lady Hester Random
จูดี้ เดนช์
Arabella
Joan Plowright
Mary Wallace
Cher
Elsa Strauss-Almerson
Lily Tomlin
Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell
Baird Wallace
Luca
Charlie Lucas
Luca (Child)
Michael Williams
British Consul
Paul Chequer
Wilfred Random, aka Miss Lucy
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
The “Scorpioni” are a bunch of entitled and privileged British women who live in Florence in the 1930s under the leadership of “Lady Hester” (Dame Maggie Smith). She is the widow of the former British Ambassador and is not entirely unsympathetic to the aspirations of “Il Duce”. Occasionally, they have to tolerate the interloping presence of the brash and wealthy American actress “Elsa” (Cher) but even with the aggressive rise of the fascists, that appears to be the only inconvenience in their rarified world. One of their number, “Mary” (Joan Plowright) is a kindly soul, and has taken the recently orphaned young “Luca” (Charlie Lucas) under her wing - and that provides a link, of sorts, between herself and the American who also cares deeply for the young lad and who wants to make some providion for his future. When the civil disorder starts to interrupt the sanctity of afternoon tea, “Lady Hester” is outraged and seeks an audience with Mussolini and whilst there she promised that he will personally guarantee her safety. Doubtless, as soon as she left his palace he had forgotten all about her, but armed with a photo of the two together she assumes he is as good as his word. When war breaks out between Italy and Britain, the ladies are dragooned into a dormitory and thence to an hotel, and she still believes she is being looked after. We, on the other hand, soon learn just who their guardian angel actually is, and when the US enters the war, even “Elsa” finds herself on a sticky wicket. “Luca” (now Baird Wallace) has got himself involved with the resistance and so is trying to help the ladies when he can, but after “Elsa” makes quite an important error of judgement just about everyone is in peril from the Gestapo. The story is a little strung out, but it’s beautiful settings in Florence and Siena and that lovely sunshine on the stonework gives the film a gorgeous richness to it’s look. The ensemble cast are a formidable array of talents, and although only really sparingly used it’s worth noting Dame Judi Dench’s effort as the somewhat windswept artist “Arabella” and the frequently scene-stealing Lily Tomlin as the no-nonsense “Georgie” - quite possibly the only woman with her head screwed on properly amongst the lot of them. The story has something of the end of empire to it, epitomised by a distinct change in attitudes towards English as opposed to German at school, and the writing does contain some humour as we follow the antics of these ladies who, I have to say, never really had much of a clue as to the goings-on in the real world anyway. It spans pretty much an whole decade and is prone to quite considerable leaps in time, but that actually serves quite well to showcase some of the starkness of the changes in their attitudes and behaviour as the war raged on. Might it be autobiographical from Zeffirelli? Well it has a haphazard authenticity to it that could suggest some of these characters might have been real, or almost real, and the amiability of it all makes it worth a watch - just to see these pros both in front and behind the camera in action.
เพพเพอร์ ฟลินท์ บัสบี (เจคอบ ซัลวาที) ที่เกิดมาตัวเล็กมากๆ จนใครต่อใครในเมืองก็บอกว่าเด็กน้อยเกิดมาเป็นคนแคระ แต่พ่อของเขาไม่เชื่อแบบนั้น พ่อเรียกเพพเพอร์ว่า ลิตเติ้ล บอย เมื่ออายุได้ 7 ขวบ สหรัฐอเมริกาประกาศสงครามกับญี่ปุ่น พ่อของเพพเพอร์ถูกเกณฑ์ ไปร่วมรบในสมรภูมิสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 ข่าวลือกันว่า ใครที่ไปร่วมรบจะไม่มีวันได้กลับมา เพพเพอร์กระวนกระวายใจว่าคนที่เขารักมากที่สุดในโลกจะหายสาบสูญไปตลอดกาล ... วันหนึ่งเพพเพอร์ได้บังเอิญไปเห็นข้อความในพระคัมภีร์ไบเบิ้ล เราบอกความจริงแก่ท่านทั้งหลายว่า ถ้าท่านมีความเชื่อเท่าเมล็ดมัสตาร์ดเมล็ดหนึ่ง ท่านจะสั่งภูเขานี้ว่า `จงเลื่อนจากที่นี่ไปที่โน่น' มันก็จะเลื่อน และไม่มีสิ่งใดที่เป็นไปไม่ได้สำหรับท่านเลย เพพเพอร์จึงบอกตัวว่า จะต้องเชื่อว่าพ่อจะต้องกลับมา แต่พ่อก็ยังไม่กลับมา..
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ได้รับแรงบันดาลใจมาจากเรื่องจริง ซึ่ง เคยเป็นที่จับตามองของสื่อทั่วโลก พล ปืนคนสุดท้าย เป็นภาพยนตร์ชีวิตที่ทั้ง ซาบซึ้งและอบอุ่น ว่าด้วย อาร์ตี้ ครอว์ฟ อร์ด (เพียร์ซ บรอสแนน) ทหารผ่านศึก สงครามโลกครั้งที่สอง วัย 92 ปี กับอีก เก้าเดือน ที่ได้ข่าวจากบ้านพักคนชรา ของเขาว่ามีพิธีรำลึกครบรอบ 75 ปีที่ นอร์มังดี เมื่อเขาตั้งใจจะเข้าร่วม อาร์ตี้ ได้เสี่ยงวางแผนหนีออกจากบ้านพักคน ชรา และเดินหน้าสู่การเดินทางที่สร้าง แรงบันดาลใจครั้งสำคัญในชีวิตสู่ ฝรั่งเศส เพื่อแสดงความเคารพต่ออดีต กรมทหารของเขาเป็นครั้งสุดท้าย
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