La dama di picche

How many victims did the three cards of Pushkin’s tale, the Pique Dame, set to music by Tchaikovsky, claim? False and authentic, love and deception, how do they intertwine in Giuseppe Tornatore’s film The Best Offer? In this third episode of Olympia Tales we will also delve into Dostoevsky’s The Player, the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, Pirandello’s play La regola del gioco and Dino Buzzati’s short story Sette Piani.