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Summary: Lovely...
Review: This is a lovely, classy and gently sweet sort of romantic comedy. Much more about spreading one's wing than falling in love, it doesn't follow the trend of American comedies, which can be cutesy or racy. This is subtle and kindly toward its flawed and endearing characters. The actors look and act like real people, though in America they'd be considered "dark," the Italians use dry wit and optimism to create an enjoyable and uplifting film.
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Summary: Just wonderful!
Review: This is a wonderful, uplifting movie. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. The Italian was spoken beautifully and the scenery was splendid. I recommend this video.
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Summary: An italian summer breeze
Review: This is an original , powerful and charming love story . Venice is the background in which an unhappy married with a bore and predictable man decides to stop for mere casuality in Venice.
But this decision will be her twist of fate .
Admirable acting , Lucia and Bruno are superb , the script is very smart and the scenes are wonderful.
A feast for the senses.
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Summary: Bread and Tulips
Review: This is the best foreign film I have seen this year. I found it beautiful and heartwarming. It left me with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. The filming is beautiful and the acting is flawless. It is a "must have" for my movie collection, and now Venice is a "must see" for me. I could leave behind my "everyday life" for love and adventure in Venice. I am so happy that Rosalba did, she gives a lot of hope for those of us who are under-appreciated and verbally abused by our spouses and children -- even if in the real world we can only escape for a short time in movies.
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Summary: 3&half for me
Review: this was a cool lite film that dealt with some interesting subject matter about Happiness&Love.I've seen other films in the same vein so I wasn't blown away.but it works.it has a nice charm to it.
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Summary: Story full of charm!
Review: This was such an unexpected find! This is the story of a housewife who has the opportunity to look at her life and really see what she wants to do with the rest of it. Many have told this story with variations but not all have achieved the charm and style this film does. I would like to see this one get more attention!
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Summary: The Best Movie Ever Made
Review: This was the best movie ever made. It was romantic and funny. It also shows you the culture, language, life, music, and people of Italy. It was a wonderful movie. Everyone should see it. Everything was great in it. This movie was magnificent and perfect. The actors were great. Bread and Tulips is my new favorite movie. It is humerous, yet serious. It is a great movie to show any audience.
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Summary: Venice...and Maglietta & Ganz...never looked so good
Review: Venice never looked so good as it does here in Silvio Soldini's "Bread and Tulips." While the title loses a little something in the translation (in Italian, it's the cute and somewhat alliterative "Pane e Tulipani"), the slowly developing relationship between leads Licia Maglietta ("Rosalba") and Bruno Ganz ("Fernando") does not. Despite the fact that the former starts out as a repressed, fed-up housewife and the latter as a brink-of-suicide waiter, the relationship is coaxed along so carefully and realistically by Soldini that it never feels fake or forced. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Maglietta is a breathtakingly vivacious (at the time) 46-year-old and the then-59-year-old Ganz is cut from the Terence Stamp school of on-screen magnetism. Reading English subtitles has never been so effortless as it is here. The lyrical Italian sounds like a wonderfully comforting soundtrack. Don't waste this movie watching it alone. This is a great way to spend two hours with your significant other.
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Summary: Second chances in my Italy
Review: Venice, and Italy in general, is truly everything you read in tourist books; but the Italy where this story of awakening and second chances (or maybe first real chance?) takes place is a little more like the country in which I grew up and the Venice I remember and miss... Small streets, little shops, busses, mothers who baby their sons way into their adult lives--the plumber's mother is quite realistically portrayed--the autostrada grill stop, the long lines at the boat stop outside Venice's Santa Lucia train station, the smoky industrial view of Porto Marghera's oil refinery complex, the hidden canals, the out of the way modest restaurants and hotels, the buildings that have been there for hundreds of years, and most importantly, the people: not romantic beauties or creatures of Hollywood passion, not heroic peasants nor hardened Mafia criminals, but everyday people with their quirks, their sorrows, their shortcomings and dreams. What better place where to awaken to the possibilities of your own self than among real people? Heroes will save the day, but it's the heart of everyday people that will give you strength while they accompany you through life.
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Summary: Escaping to Venice
Review: When an Italian housewife Rosalba (Licia Maglietta) suddenly finds herself stranded, she realizes that perhaps she is not as appreciated by her family as she would like to be. All she sees is the tour bus moving off into the distance and then realizes her son has changed his phone number so she is unable to stop the bus. When they finally call to ask where she is, she can't believe they didn't even check to see if she was on the bus before they left. Feeling adventurous and a little resentful, she decides to hitch a ride home, but ends up in Venice. With little money to spare, she manages to survive for a few days with hopes of getting a job and finding a place to stay. After finding a job in a florist shop and moving in with a waiter named Fernando (who is just about to kill himself it seems), she meets Grazia who bursts into her life asking her to help her with a plumbing disaster. For some reason Rosalba is swept away in this new life and keeps telling her family she will be back soon, yet something strange power seems to overtake her and she decides she too needs a vacation, albeit a working vacation. She spends her time working in the florist shop, reading books in the evening and eating breakfast prepared by Fernando. He also leaves her a note each morning, which is quite romantic even though, technically, she is just his house guest. Once Rosalba's husband starts to notice that things are not getting done around his house, he hires Costantino (Giuseppe Battiston) as his private detective. This is when it become more of a comedy of sorts as Costantino is really a plumber who is determined to find Rosalba and return her to her husband. An enjoyable escape that really keeps
your full attention. Licia Maglietta is
pure magic.
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