Bread and Tulips (2000)
(Pane e tulipani)
Country: IT/SW
Technical: col 116m
Director: Silvio Soldini
Cast: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston
Synopsis:
Left behind at a motorway service stop while returning home from holiday with her family, put-upon and deceived housewife Rosalba hitches a ride and ends up visiting Venice for the first time. Intending to resume her journey next day, she instead ends up moving in with a suicidal waiter and taking a job at a florist's.
Review:
An Italian Shirley Valentine (i.e. less sardonic humour, more whimsy and farce) and a delightfully played one, with a radiant central performance and a sedate one from Ganz. There is also a subplot involving the plumber Rosalba's husband sends as private investigator, which helps spin things out a bit but does not have much of a function otherwise.
(Pane e tulipani)
Country: IT/SW
Technical: col 116m
Director: Silvio Soldini
Cast: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston
Synopsis:
Left behind at a motorway service stop while returning home from holiday with her family, put-upon and deceived housewife Rosalba hitches a ride and ends up visiting Venice for the first time. Intending to resume her journey next day, she instead ends up moving in with a suicidal waiter and taking a job at a florist's.
Review:
An Italian Shirley Valentine (i.e. less sardonic humour, more whimsy and farce) and a delightfully played one, with a radiant central performance and a sedate one from Ganz. There is also a subplot involving the plumber Rosalba's husband sends as private investigator, which helps spin things out a bit but does not have much of a function otherwise.
(Pane e tulipani)
Country: IT/SW
Technical: col 116m
Director: Silvio Soldini
Cast: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston
Synopsis:
Left behind at a motorway service stop while returning home from holiday with her family, put-upon and deceived housewife Rosalba hitches a ride and ends up visiting Venice for the first time. Intending to resume her journey next day, she instead ends up moving in with a suicidal waiter and taking a job at a florist's.
Review:
An Italian Shirley Valentine (i.e. less sardonic humour, more whimsy and farce) and a delightfully played one, with a radiant central performance and a sedate one from Ganz. There is also a subplot involving the plumber Rosalba's husband sends as private investigator, which helps spin things out a bit but does not have much of a function otherwise.