Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas andSean Penn and director Philip Haas director of Angels and Insects.In Up at the Villa ... » 

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas andSean Penn and director Philip Haas director of Angels and Insects.In Up at the Villa W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English womanwho finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him Mary Leonarddemurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hillsabove Florence alone that evening Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger.And suddenly her life is utterly irrevocably altered.For this stranger is a refugee of war and he harbors more than one form ofpassion. Before morning Mary will witness bloodshed she will be forced toseek advice and assistance from an unsavory man and she will have to face thetruth about her own yearnings. Erotic haunting and maddeningly suspensefulUp at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature offate. «