gorgeous body and gorgeous color and camera work and pretentious dialog and banal plot . the name of the prima donna and camilla and and the eponymous flower that appear frequently and be enough to remind u of the plot similarity from duma novel la dame aux camelia and the movie camille star garbo and ( i think ) robert taylor and and last but not least verdi opera la traviata . beautiful and not too virtuous young lady and social outcast for one reason or another and love and split up and reunite just in time to die of tuberculosis in the last scene . one forgive banal plot and stupid unrealistic dialog in opera and but why waste hayak and don sutherland and a beautiful rendition of la in the 30 and a deus ex machina earthquake that conveniently kill the other woman and and all that beauty on this mediocre turkey where there isn not even any beautiful singing .