{"id":5082,"date":"2018-09-08T09:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2018-09-10T21:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T01:37:41","slug":"tea-with-mussolini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/09\/tea-with-mussolini\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea with Mussolini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1999, Italy\/UK, 117 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fascist Italy, a group of older, artistic-leaning expats\u2014one of whom (Maggie Smith) insufferably flouts her musty political connections\u2014enjoy their sun-drenched lifestyle. However, the party is winding down: Benito Mussolini is growing increasingly combative. Years pass, and the once-comfortable American and English women find themselves hassled by troops and, eventually, imprisoned. Their chance at freedom may depend on a boy with a sentimental connection to these prisoners. Loosely based on director Franco Zeffirelli\u2019s life and on a group of women known as the Scorpioni, the film does more than serve as a forum for several wonderful actresses, such as Smith, Joan Plowright, Cher and Lily Tomlin. It\u2019s an inspirational, historical reminder that adaptation and strength don\u2019t expire with age, even when war literally comes to your neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fascist Italy, a group of older, artistic-leaning expats\u2014one of whom (Maggie Smith) insufferably flouts her musty political connections\u2014enjoy their sun-drenched lifestyle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/09\/tea-with-mussolini\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tea with Mussolini<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","category-friendships-cinema"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}