The famous French painter gets a new lease of life in his seventies when he hires the vivacious Andrée as a model. When his 21 year old son, Jean comes home severely wounded from the Great War he is smitten by Andrée’s feminine charms and falls in love.

(La Grande Bellezza)

Jep, a journalist and novelist, has for decades charmed, partied and seduced his way through life among Rome’s literary hedonistic social circles, living off the success of his one and only novel. But on his 65th birthday he meets with a bit of a shock from

A wonderful retelling of the tale of Snow White, except the context is bullfighting. A celebrated matador is gored by a bull causing his heavily pregnant wife who is among the spectators to go into labour. She dies in childbirth and the surviving infant is raised by