Light in the Piazza (1962)

Directors

Guy Green

Cast

Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Barry Sullivan, Isabel Dean

The story

While taking a summer holiday in Florence with her mother, Meg, 26-year-old Clara Johnson, an American with a developmental disability since childhood caused by a kick in the head from a Shetland pony, meets and falls in love with a young Italian named Fabrizio Naccarelli. Blinded by his love for Clara, and with his limited English language skills and Clara's limited Italian language skills, Fabrizio believes her disability to be simple naivete. At a local holiday celebration, Meg tries to explain her daughter's condition to Fabrizio's father, but the moment is interrupted when one of the performers, a Naccarelli acquaintance, is wounded…

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