I viewed it again with my daughter and son-in law.I'm totally happy with my purchase. I bought it because I've seen it before on film, and heard the whole book on CD. It beautifully speaks to how Love and Beauty, showered lovingly and unconditionally on another, can transform and lighten the human spirit, so that each person, so accepted and cherished, can shine in his/her essential beauty and goodness.

Each in turn is transformed by the loving gaze and acceptance of another, and when the 7 leave at the end, they are all transformed into more beautiful, and loving human beings. In turn, two other men arrive to share the place - the owner, who stopped in to check on how they are doing, and the husband of the 2nd woman whom Lotty befriended. He, too, is transformed, both by her new acceptance of him, and the admiration of the two wealthy women he hoped to make clients of. She becomes radiantly loving toward all, including the solicitor-husband she sought to have time away from, and invites him to come. Lotty is transformed by the sheer beauty of the place - the flowers, the beautiful castle and its gorgeous setting by the sea, and the time to be with herself and enjoy. The first transformation is of Lotty, the original viewer of the ad, who enlisted the collaboration of the other women to make it happen. The story is about the transformation of four women who team up to spend a month together in a castle in Italy, in response to an ad in the London Times. I purchased the DVD on e-Bay, and loved it! It is a beautiful film set in pre-depression London/Italy.

Enchanted april by elizabeth von arnim