 It is one of Stanley Kubrick's 10 favorite films and receives 4 votes from critics and 6 votes from directors in the Sight & Sound greatest films poll.Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni), a distinguished writer and his beautiful wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), visit their dying friend Tommaso Garani (Bernhard Wicki) in a hospital in Milan.Giovanni's new book, "La stagione" ("The Season"), has just been published and Tommaso praises his friend's work.