Underplayed Gems

Passion of Love (1981)

Passion of Love poster
Original title
Passione d'amore
Directed by
Ettore Scola
Genre
drama film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 57m
Rated
TP
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 30 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A married army officer becomes obsessed with an unattractive and sickly woman who is deeply in love with him. Their intense and destructive relationship unfolds against a 19th-century Italian backdrop.

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What happens

Passion of Love (Italian: Passione d'amore) is a 1981 drama film directed by Ettore Scola and was adapted from the 1869 novel Fosca by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. It served as the inspiration for the 1994 Broadway musical Passion by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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