La villa del venerdì (internationally released as Husband and Lovers) is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. The film is a transposition of the novel with the same name written by Alberto Moravia. Director: Mauro Bolognini Writers: Sergio Bazzini, Alberto Moravia (novel) Stars: Julian Sands, Joanna Pacula, Tchéky Karyo Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her on the weekends. At the same time the wife finds herself increasingly drawn to the violence of her lover versus the adoration of her husband.