Plot
For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Lucy, a 19-year-old American, was last there four years ago and wants to meet up again with the young Italian who kissed her and corresponded for a while. And she has brought the diary of her late mother filled with enigmatic poems that suggest Lucy was conceived on that hilltop. Lucy wants to find out if Daddy is the Italian war correspondent who wrote to her mother for 20 years. Then again Daddy could be the dying English playwright in residence or the artist who uses a chainsaw on tree trunks for his sculptures. The three, of course, have no idea that Lucy is there to solve a mystery. They, the artist's wife, daughter of that wife and the daughter's American lover are most intrigued by Lucy's virginity.
Written by
Bernardo Bertolucci, Susan Minot
Directed by
Bernardo Bertolucci
Crew
Production Countries
United Kingdom, Italy, France
Production Companies
France 2 Cinéma, Fiction Films, Jeremy Thomas Productions, Recorded Picture Company, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Languages
English
Awards
3 wins & 11 nominations total