The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie...
Director:
John Irvin
Writers:
Ottavio Jemma, Alberto Lattuada.
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Jacqueline Bisset as Headmistress |
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Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Irene |
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Natalia Tena as Vera |
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Anna Maguire as Melusine |
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Mary Nighy as Hidalla |
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Anya Lahiri as Rain |
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Emily Pimm as Blanka |
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Urbano Barberini as il principe |
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Silvia De Santis as Gertrude |
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Eva Grimaldi as Simba |
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Enrico Lo Verso as Inspector |
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Galatea Ranzi as Lady Helena |
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Tomáš Hanák as autista carro funebre |
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Zuzana Maxa as Lora |
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Jan Unger as giardiniere |
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Marek Vašut as conte |
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Lucie Vondráčková as Pamela |
| Directing | John Irvin | Director |
| Camera | Fabio Zamarion | Director of Photography |
| Art | Dante Ferretti | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Carlo Poggioli | Costume Design |
| Editing | Roberto Perpignani | Editor |
| Editing | Louisa Harding | Assistant Editor |
| Writing | Frank Wedekind | Short Story |
| Writing | Ottavio Jemma | Screenplay |
| Writing | Alberto Lattuada | Screenplay |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alessandro Bertolazzi | Makeup Department Head |