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	Tea with Mussolini
		Like last year's Life Is Beautiful, Tea with Mussolini presents the spirit enduring against the backdrop of an Italy torn apart by World War II.
		Tea with Mussolini offers fans of character-driven drama a wealth of treasures, not the least of which are the sun-soaked Italian locations and a story that is at once poignant and funny.
		To be sure, the world Zeffirelli recreates in Tea with Mussolini is a rose-tinted one that hardly reflects the reality of war.
	www.everythingcher.com /pages/tea1.htm (227 words)

	CNN - Review: Acting, locale make 'Tea With Mussolini' worth sipping - May 17, 1999
		"Tea With Mussolini" is based on an early chapter from his own memoirs and takes place when he was a child.
		And after having tea with Mussolini, she feels safe from the whims of the dictator known as Il Duce.
		Still, while "Tea With Mussolini" may be lightly flawed, it's an enjoyable and romanticized look at a harsh time in history.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9905/17/review.teawithmussolini/index.html (630 words)

	Tea with Mussolini (1999): Reviews
		Once you accept the notion that Tea With Mussolini aspires to be little more than a kind of British-Italian ''Steel Magnolias,'' with a patina of World War II-movie uplift, it becomes a pleasure to watch its stars shamelessly hamming it up.
		Tea With Mussolini is really about the first women in the Italian director's life.
		Tea With Mussolini doesn't come close to John Boorman's captivating "Hope and Glory," which managed to address the terrible destructiveness and misery of the war as well as the magical adventure it offered its young protagonist.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/teawithmussolini (1124 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Tea With Mussolini (1999)
		Part of what Mussolini's followers were seeking was a national identity for a young country that had been occupied by foreign forces for centuries and was unified under a single independent government only in the late 1800's.
		Lady Hester, who convinces herself that she is under Mussolini's personal protection, sympathizes with these desires, but fails to grasp that the colony of foreign women represents everything that the young xenophobic Fascists resent, and thus, is oblivious to the danger she is in.
		Tea With Mussolini is a pretty movie, well-acted, and somewhat interesting from a historical perspective, but it doesn't transport us into the women's lives.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/t/teamussolini.htm (902 words)

	Tea With Mussolini
		It has the unlikely title of "Tea with Mussolini." It stars Cher, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Judi Densch, and Lily Tomlin, was written by veteran screenwriter John Mortimer, and directed by the wonderfully gifted Italian director Franco Zefferelli.
		"Tea with Mussolini" opens at a memorial ceremony that a group of expatriot British ladies are having in 1935 to honor the memory of Elizabeth Barrett Browning who is buried there.
		When the ladies' favorite restaurant is attacked by the fl shirts she is certain Mussolini is unaware of it so she does what she thinks her late husband would have done: she goes to Rome to meet with Mussolini and secure his personal promise that the British community in Florence will be protected.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/T/tea-mussolini.html (850 words)

	Tea With Mussolini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The other two women who appear prominently in Tea With Mussolini are notable for how little they have in common with and how little they seem to like their British peers.
		One of Tea With Mussolini's crucial pitfalls is that we are never, ever for a moment permitted to forget what a sterling cast has been assembled to tell this story.
		Mussolini and his henchmen come across here as villains mostly because they had no respect for quality painting or 4 o'clock tea.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /teawith.html (1475 words)

	Tea With Mussolini movie review, In Film Australia
		I gathered two meanings from the title "Tea with Mussolini." The first one refers to an actual, real-life event in which a character in the film does indeed sit down and have a cuppa with the legendary Roman leader himself.
		The word "tea" brings to mind visions of calmness and peace, and whist these are the overriding message of this film (it’s subtlety belt into your forehead by director Franco Zeffirelli), it strives for more than just a story devoted to the kinship between its central characters.
		‘Tea With Mussolini’ reassures us that, no matter how old the protagonists of a film may be, basic characteristics of acting don’t change.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/mussolini.htm (888 words)

	Movie-Vault.com :: Over 2000 Reviews and Counting...
		Tea With Mussolini is about a circle of affluent British ladies—well-preserved widows, biddies, and old maids—living in Florence in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Tea With Mussolini is neither about the boy nor the women, but about the boy’s view of the women.
		Tea With Mussolini is a sweet, good-natured film, including a few gentle laughs about how Maggie’s grandson is kept from the fighting, and more bits with a dog involving Judi Dench.
	www.movie-vault.com /reviews/vcFEOOvysuiOQYhv (802 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Tea With Mussolini
		Tea With Mussolini suggests by its very name that it is a perfect match for the blue haired brigade.
		Both she and the artiste-tic Arabella Delancey (Judi Dench) are blissfully ignorant of the realities of Fascist politics; Hester herself is patronized by Il Duce when she goes for tea, to inform him of the dreadful mistake his flshirts have made in messing up the cultured English lifestyle.
		Though not his lifestory, the character and incidents within Tea With Mussolini are all expanded from real events in his life.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive99/teawithmussolini.html (808 words)

	Tea with Mussolini - Moviefone
		Rating: PG Synopsis: Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and...
		MGM Movie Database: Tea With Mussolini Synopsis of Tea With Mussolini starring null null, Joan Plowright, and Judi Dench.
		Tea With Mussolini movie review, In Film Australia I gathered two meanings from the title "Tea with Mussolini.
	movies.aol.com /movie/tea-with-mussolini/4590/main (170 words)

	A comment on Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini Tea with Mussolini, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, written by John Mortimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tea with Mussolini, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, written by John Mortimer
		Franco Zeffirelli's motives for creating Tea With Mussolini may have been decent ones, and this film has a talented cast of actors and is set in one of most beautiful and historic places in the world, among great and timeless works of art.
		The film's time-frame extends from June 1935, when Benito Mussolini's fascist regime ruled in Italy, until 1944, when the northern Italian city of Florence is retaken by Allied troops.
	wsws.org /articles/1999/jul1999/tea-j12.shtml (827 words)

	Tea with Mussolini . Tucson Weekly . 06-14-99
		Tea with Mussolini is perhaps Zeffirelli's most intelligent film, but that's kind of like picking Stephen King's most romantic novel.
		Played by Maggie Smith in her usual stiffly regal style, Lady Hester is fond of fascism and afternoon tea, and despises Americans, Jews and crassness.
		Tea with Mussolini attempts to pick up the pace by having the years drift by, imposing the numbers "1936," "1937," "1938," etc. over the screen as montage images show the effects of fascism and World War II on a previously peaceful Italy.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/t/teawithmussolini1.html (831 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tea With Mussolini (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: Franco Zeffirelli,Cher,Judi Dench,Joan Plowright,Maggie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tea with Mussolini is a mixture of warm and chilly memories.
		Tea with Mussolini is a fine film that seems to float over the dark chasms it covers.
		However, "Tea with Mussolini" is not always credible and the characters are somewhat exaggerated.
	www.amazon.ca /Tea-Mussolini-Widescreen-Full-Screen/dp/630560097X (1842 words)

	Tea with Mussolini (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Franco Zeffirelli's film "Tea With Mussolini" may have autobiographical roots, but it often plays with less believability than any number of fictional films set in the World War II era.
		Plowright, however, provides the real human focus of the story, and it is the utter selflessness and strongwilled righteousness of her character that makes the deepest mark on the viewer.
		"Tea With Mussolini" deserves credit for portraying a world not often seen in the movies and the film is not without its moments of poignancy, facscination and even occasional humor.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0120857 (742 words)

	Tea With Mussolini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tea with Mussolini (1999) is a semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a kind Englishwoman and her circle of friends.
		Tea with Mussolini is a film tribute to the circle of women who helped to raise director Franco Zeffirelli.
		However, things continue to deteriorate and Luca's father decides that Italy's future is with Germany rather than England and removes Luca from Mary's care and sends him away for several years to a German boarding school.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tea_With_Mussolini (508 words)

	Tea With Mussolini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Luca, the directorial alter ego in this piquant film that expands on a chapter of Zeffirelli's autobiography, may be the illegitimate son of a dead fashion designer and a father who acknowledges him only furtively.
		Actually, the Italian dictator is played by Claudio Spadaro, and Maggie Smith is the haughty hatter of an English aristocrat who has tea with him.
		But the performances are as delicious as anything that could be served for Tea with Mussolini.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/05/13/TEA_WITH_MUSSOLINI.html (282 words)

	Sex, Bullets & Popcorn: Movie review of Tea with Mussolini. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tea with Mussolini, Franco Zeffirelli’s latest movie is a semi-autobiographical work about a young illegitimate boy, Luca (Charlie Lucas), raised by a group of English women living in Florence during the rise of fascism preceding WW II.
		He entreats his secretary, the warm and loving Mary (Joan Plowright), who is a member of the Scorpioni, so nick-named for their no nonsense attitudes and collective strong wills, to raise his boy as a British gentleman.
		Luca discovers what it means to be a man. He will take with him the education and experiences received from his mothers to develop further as a person and later, as a filmmaker.
	www.sbp-movie-reviews.com /rev_teawmuss.htm (878 words)

	Tea With Mussolini (1999)
		Tea With Mussolini, like life itself, has no plot per se.
		And just in case you were wondering, yes, she and the gang do get to have tea with Mussolini.
		Tea With Mussolini unravels quite leisurely, using almost its entire first half for character exposition and sowing little story details.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Tea_With_Mussolini.html (926 words)

	Tea with Mussolini Reviewed
		It is a country as foreign as the fairy lands of A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, which we’ve previously dreamed about, or the horrible new Europe of the current topic of discussion, Tea with Mussolini.
		Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, Tea with Mussolini is allegedly autobiographical—although there are complaints that he did not have the Resistance experience of his fictional stand-in Luca (Charlie Lucas, as the child, Baird Wallace as the teenager).
		Mussolini often alluded to the glories of ancient Rome as a justification for what he was doing.
	www.peanut.org /users/mike/text/Thetusca.htm (1193 words)

	TEA WITH MUSSOLINI
		The kid losing his shirt is Luca (Baird Wallace, in his film debut), a teenage orphan that is, at first, an unwitting pawn in Elsa’s attempt to smuggle desperate Jews out of Italy - she tapes passports to the boy’s chest and tells him where to deliver them.
		Her character is oblivious enough to not notice the things happening around her, but also strong enough to berate her captors into both knocking before they enter a lady’s room and saying goodnight when they leave one.
		Directed by Franco Zeffirelli (Jane Eyre), Mussolini was written by British novelist/playwright John Mortimer and is actually based loosely on Zeffirelli’s own life (as told in his autobiography).
	www.sick-boy.com /teawith.htm (536 words)

	Film Blather: Tea With Mussolini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tea With Mussolini is the latest film from Franco Zeffirelli, a highly acclaimed Italian director whom I could never appreciate for one reason: he mutilated William Shakespeare's most famous play, Romeo & Juliet.
		Tea With Mussolini is, at heart, a tale of eccentricity and that aspect of it works; unfortunately not a hell of a lot else does.
		Perhaps this was intended to emphasize that Tea With Mussolini was intended to be a wholly lighthearted affair, but it doesn't work to the movie's advantage by any means.
	www.filmblather.com /review.php?n=teawithmussolini (611 words)

	TEA WITH MUSSOLINI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After all, Lady Hester (MAGGIE SMITH) the group's eldest and most aristocratic member, is certain that Mussolini, whom she met through her late husband, the former British ambassador to Italy, is a close personal friend of hers.
		Despite Lady Hester arranging to have tea with Mussolini and receiving his personal assurance that no harm will come to them, the ladies and Luca realize that the tides are changing.
		All of which leads us to "Tea With Mussolini," a film loosely based on the childhood life of its director, Franco Zeffirelli, and in particular, his memoirs, "Zeffirelli - An Autobiography," published in 1988.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1999/tea_with_mussolini.html (2044 words)

	Tea With Mussolini - Movie Review
		Tea with Mussolini focuses on the life of a boy named Luca, who is director Franco Zefferelli's alter ego.
		Along with Mary's group of English tea time friends known as The Scorpioni, Luca is taught many things.
		I admirably recommend Tea with Mussolini; it is moving and clever.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/teawithmussolini (492 words)

	Political Film Society - Tea with Mussolini
		As political options narrow due to the ascendancy of the Fascists, who disrupt lunch at Doney’s Tea Room, a restaurant frequented by the expatriates, Lady Hester decides to protest directly to Il Duce, since her late husband was Britain’s ambassador to Italy.
		During tea, the dictator (played by Claudio Spadaro) reassures her falsely that he will look out for her.
		Indeed, recalling the story of the blind man in At First Sight who was happy as a lark because he always found helpful people, the lesson of Tea with Mussolini, Paradise Road, and Life Is Beautiful is the same—kind people can create heaven just about anywhere.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/tea.html (397 words)

	Tea With Mussolini DVD Movie Review
		Tea with Mussolini is driven by characters and setting.
		Then there's Arabella and her precious dog and a sensibly cynical outlook on life, and Georgie, the American woman trying hard at looking like a man The big event of the title, the tea with Il Dulce, is rather mundane and brief and almost exists to confirm the title.
		The performances are beautifully modulated in Tea with Mussolini, from the dour and forthright Joan Plowright playing Mary to the eccentric Judi Dench enjoying every moment of Arabella.
	www.filmsondisc.com /DVDpages/tea_with_musolini.htm (519 words)

	Tea with Mussolini reviewed, Mountain Area Information Network
		So it is with a great sense of delight I tell you to run, not walk, to "Tea With Mussolini," a marvelous epic about the rise and fall of Il Duce, the Second World War in general, Italy in particular, and zeroing in on the location of Florence (the city of art) to be exact.
		Called the "Scorpioni" by their neighbors, these ladies warped and woofed much of the city’s social fabric, beginning at a time when tea was served every afternoon, following through the Brown Shirts, then declarations of war, and finally victory.
		This is a movie that hearkens back to the old days of the cinema where big downtown theatres would often show something meant entirely as entertainment, having nothing to do with political dogma or the so-called charm of youth.
	www.main.nc.us /film/film.cgi?teawithmussolini (264 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tea With Mussolini [1999]: Video: Cher,Judi Dench,Joan Plowright,Maggie Smith,Lily Tomlin,Baird ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When the fascists threaten their lifestyle, Lady Hester, widow of the former ambassador, has tea with Mussolini, who promises to look after her and her friends personally.
		The level of irony is suggested in the title, as the "scorpioni" refuse to believe that Mussolini's "ungentlemanly" behavior could possibly affect them.
		A declaration of war is a mere detail since securing the 'word' of Il Duce that their safety was in his personal guarantee at a tea party so magnanimously hosted by the man himself.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Tea-Mussolini-Cher/dp/B00005UL5V (1262 words)

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