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Bookmark this pageBread and Tulips (2000)
Director: Silvio Soldini
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From Time Out London
When fortyish housewife Rosalba is separated from family and friends on a coach tour of the south, she decides, while hitching home to Pescara, to see Venice, just for 24 hours. It becomes more than a break from routine; missing her train home, she’s lent a sofa by a friendly but taciturn Icelandic waiter, and the next day, on a whim, she takes a job at an anarchist florist’s. Meanwhile, hubby’s having fits, even hiring a crime fiction-crazy plumber to find her… A midlife romantic fable less firmly rooted in reality than the faintly dowdy characters might suggest, this benefits from the charisma of both Licia Maglietta as the unlikely princess awaiting liberation and Bruno Ganz as her pedantic yet poetic host. It’s fluff and nonsense, obviously, with misjudged dream sequences and broad comic scenes; still, it sidesteps gross sentimentality while displaying affection for its characters. Old-fashioned, a little wayward, improbably likeable.Author: GA
Time Out London Issue 1831: September 21-28 2005
Cast & crew
Director: Silvio Soldini
Producer: Daniele Maggioni
Cast: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Felice Andreasi, Tatiana Lepore, Marina Massironi, Antonio Catania full cast
Rated: 12A
Duration: 116 mins
UK Release: Sep 23 2005
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