Director Axel Corti's followup to his acclaimed 1986 WELCOME IN VIENNA was filmed in 1990 and sneaked into the U.S. as video release in early 1993, and it is no buried treasure. A costume epic set in 17th-century Italy, it features British Timothy Dalton as an Italian king smitten with
Italian Valeria Golino as a French countess in a British-Italian-French-Austrian co-production that proves as baffling as its casting and as fractured as its lineage.
On the cusp of poverty after providing dowries for her sisters, the family of Jeanne de Luynes (Golino) is about to commit her to a convent. Salvation arrives in the form of Count Alessandro Di Verua (Stephane Frei...
Released:
1990
Rated:
R
Length:
113 mins