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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...
🏳️🌈 John Irvin's atmospheric period mystery features an isolated girls' boarding academy, masterfully layering the schoolgirls' intense team camaraderie, formatting, and physical closeness with deep sáfic subtext.
Cast
Jacqueline Bisset Headmistress
Hannah Taylor-Gordon Irene
Natalia Tena Vera
Anna Maguire Melusine
Mary Nighy Hidalla
Anya Lahiri Rain
Emily Pimm Blanka
Urbano Barberini il principe
Silvia De Santis Gertrude
Eva Grimaldi Simba
Enrico Lo Verso Inspector
Galatea Ranzi Lady Helena
Tomáš Hanák autista carro funebre
Zuzana Maxa Lora
Jan Unger giardiniere
Marek Vašut conte
Lucie Vondráčková Pamela
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