Since Downton Abbey 2, Paul and I have been watching a series of films by Maggie Smith, especially her Tea with Mussolini (1999) and My House in Umbria (2003). Both set in Italy, the two movies have different settings, one is in the city scene of Florence in WWII through the eyes of a boy called Luca and the other, set in the villa of Mrs. Delahunty, a writer of romance novels, through an orphan girl Aimee's experience after a terrorists' attack on a Milan train.
However there is something always unchanged such as friendship, the closeness between the old and young, between man and woman. There are also pairs of beautiful contrasts, such as beauty and destruction, love and betrayal, humor and boredom.
We cannot wait to continue our exploration with Keeping Mum (2005), Ladies in Lavender (2004), the Last September (1999), etc.
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