lexie88
Such a warm, wonderful movie! There is nothing superficial or artificial about the story or characters: they are all ordinary people who had their paths crossed by pure chance and happened to connect to each other in very profound ways. The story feels real, the characters too - you could say they are real, since I'm sure that all of us have in our surroundings one of these people; and one can really connect to the story on some level at least, if not on all - for me, it looks exactly like something I would do. The plot is simple, but significant and deep, full of life, life at its liveliest - you can actually feel how it pulsates throughout the movie.I really loved this movie! It doesn't make you laugh, but it makes you smile with all your heart; it doesn't make you sob, but my eyes watered a bit at some points. And I honestly recommend it to everyone, especially those who seek to feel warmth wrapping around their hearts... I don't know why, but the setting and the atmosphere reminded me of my childhood, perhaps that is why I liked it that much... Watch and enjoy! :)
Danusha_Goska Save Send Delete
Licia Maglietta and Bruno Ganz are so wonderful in this movie that I wish it had been a better film, because I would love to watch their performances over and over, but I won't be doing so, because, besides Maglietta and Ganz, the movie is only lukewarm."Bread and Tulips" is a lighthearted romantic comedy about a middle-aged woman who accidentally walks out on her family and starts a new life in Venice. Rosalba's (Maglietta)'s husband, Mimmo, dispatches a private detective, actually a plumber who came to him for work, to bring her back home. Comedic and romantic complications ensue.The revelation here is Licia Maglietta. She is simply one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen in a movie. She's not just beautiful, she is entrancing. I'd put her appeal in the same class with Garbo. There is a scene where she wrenches a tune out of an accordion (it's actually her playing the accordion) and the look of pleasure on her face has more life and sex appeal than most actresses can achieve in the most rigorous of love scenes.Bruno Ganz, who has convincingly played both an angel ("Wings of Desire") and Hitler ("Downfall") is as wonderful as ever as an older waiter.Ganz and Maglietta make very beautiful music together, but, otherwise, the film is underwritten and lightweight. Rosalba says virtually nothing of substance in the entire film. Venice, a picturesque city, is photographed with so little imagination that the movie may as well have taken place in a K-Mart parking lot.There are some nice gags involving a tulip and an antique gun, but, really, I wish this exact same cast could be brought together for a more ambitious, more fully realized film.
Boba_Fett1138
This is an enjoyable little Italian/Swiss production, that mostly gets carried by its characters.The movie is sweet, little and innocent. In other words, perfect harmless entertainment. The movie feels warm and sincere, this is due to the setting of the movie (Venice) and its characters, that are all far from perfect but because of that also very humane and in this case also enjoyably quirky at times.The movie is mostly comical with its characters. They are over-the-top but at the same time kept humane. It helps to make the movie an enjoyable one to watch and at the same time also keeps sure that the emotions of the movie feel real.The movie features a nice story in which a married mother escapes her normal everyday life after she has been forgotten during a vacation by the tour bus. She decides to take advantage of the situation by hitchhiking to Venic, the city she always wanted to visit. perhaps for the first time ever in her life she feels herself alive and home somewhere, where she really can be herself. She decides to stay for a day but the day soon becomes days and the days weeks.For a change the movie centrally features a love-story between 2 persons at age and not persons who are still in the prime of their life and are in their early 20's, or something. It's refreshing, dramatic more powerful and involving and in a way also sweeter.Licia Maglietta is a good leading lady for the movie. and she forms a good couple with Bruno Ganz, who is halve Swiss, halve Italian and by far has the best lines of the movie, that almost sound poetic like. The rest of the supporting actors are mainly for the fun but everyone does a good job at portraying them.The movie is however not the best made and constructed one. At times they simply choose not to show some of the dramatic responses and just cut away and goes forward in time or back to another location. In my opinion this is a sign of weakness of the film-maker's skills and it's also definitely due to the editing that the movie does not work out at all times.Nevertheless, you should be able to appreciate and enjoy watching this movie.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
faraaj-1
Bread and Tulips was a big hit at the Donatello Film Awards - Italy's equivalent of the Oscar or Bafta. Like the popular Spanish movie Belle Epoque, this is not a serious or groundbreaking movie but has achieved worldwide for the same 'feel-good' factors that work in American films. I'm sure the ladies will love this.I liked that it was based in Venice and I got to see images of that city that I've never seen before - totally unique settings. All the characters are likable except Rosalba's family. We have Rosalba, a Pescaran housewife with a husband and two sons who don't appreciate her sacrifices. We have Costantino, an unemployed plumber who moonlights as a private eye to find Rosalba in Venice on her selfish husbands instructions. The rest of the Venetian team is rounded out by an eccentric masseuse looking for Mr. Perfect, an suicidal Icelandic man looking for love and an aging florist who can be very rude to his customers.Yes, there is nothing original in the plot. The characterizations are shallow and clichés abound. But this is a light, likable little movie with pleasant actors and an even more pleasant surrounding. Good for an evening then promptly forgotten.
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