A Good Woman

Meg (Scarlett Johansson) and Robert Windermere are newly married and also newly in love when they spend their honeymoon on the Italian Amalfi Coast in the 1930s. Unfortunately, the local high society, already somewhat wilted, is susceptible to any rumor breeze. Talk of a possible liaison between Robert and his wife Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt), who has arrived from America, threatens to break up the young marriage. Meg, on the other hand, has to fend off the advances of playboy Lord Darlington. The only honest soul seems to be Lord Augustus (Tom Wilkinson), nicknamed "Tuppy". And he proposes marriage to the busy Stella Erlynne of all people. Oscar Wilde designed his celebrated theatrical debut "Lady Windemere's Fan" as a smug satire about appearances, reality, selfishness and gossip. And if you look at the quick-wittedness of bustling Mrs. Erlynne, who travels from her native America to Italy in times of the Great Depression to look for generous companions in old Europe, it becomes clear how the sympathies are distributed in this melancholy summer comedy. "I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to." (Quote: Oscar Wilde)