SUPERSTITION UK, 2001

	Directed by	Kenneth Hope (film debut)
	Written by	Paul Hoffman and Kate Dennis from an original story by Stephen Volk
	Produced by	Bob Hubar and Denis Wigman (Crushproof)
	Cast	Sienna Guillory (Julie) Alice Krige (Mirella Cenci) Derek de Lint (Alessandro Cenci) Mark Strong (Antonio Gabrieli) Charlotte Rampling (Mother Frances Matteo) Frances Barber (Isabella Flores) David Schofield (Dr Roberto Fallaci) David Warner
	Production company	Vine International Pictures
	Genre	Psychological Thriller inspired by a true story
	Delivery	April 2001
	Language	English

Julie (Sienna Guillory) is a 19-year-old English nanny hired by wealthy Italian couple Mirella and Alessandro Cenci (Alice Krige, Derek de Lint) to take care of their baby son Claudio. Julie has a hard time in the house; leered at by Alessandro. She is wrongly accused of flirting with him by the jealous Mirella. But Julie adores her young charge and tries to keep herself to herself in the house. However, when baby Claudio dies in a mysterious fire at the family home, the finger of blame points to the young outsider and Julie is thrust into a nightmare scenario, where no one believes that she does not know how the fire started.. She is accused of being a witch by the local press and as the witch-hunt intensifies, Julie’s only hope lies in the hands of defence lawyer Antonio Gabrieli (Mark Strong). Gabrielli, though, is fighting his own demons. A deeply private and gentle man grieving over the loss of his young wife in a car accident, the lawyer is only persuaded to come out of mourning to take on Julie’s case by the exhortations of his friend and colleague Isabella Flores (Frances Barber). Julie’s guilt hangs in the balance, but when a series of further unexplained fires begin to blaze, the young nanny seems irredeemably implicated and is jailed for suspected arson. Gabrieli fights to prove the girl's innocence. He is granted custody of the girl after a judicial verdict and he takes her into his own home. But after some degree of trust has been established between them, it is clear he is putting himself at risk by having her there, and his house too is unexplainably set ablaze. Meanwhile, Gabrieli has been contacted by Dr Roberto Fallaci (David Schofield), an expert in the supernatural who wants to talk to him about the possibility of Julie being possessed. As a man of fact, Gabrieli dismisses the professor's theory until he realises he may need his help. Together with former psychiatrist Mother Frances Matteo (Charlotte Rampling) the trio come together to try to prove Julie's innocence. In a final unveiling of shattering events from Julie’s past, the terrible truth is revealed. Review from "Vine International Pictures site" Vine International Pictures Company formed in 1992 by Barry Giff and Marie Vine URL: http://www.vine-international.co.uk email: vine@easynet.co.uk address: VIP House, Greenacres, New Road Hill Down, Orpington Kent BR6 7JA, United Kingdom

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