Bread and Tulips
(Pane e Tulipani)
Screening on Film
Directed by Silvio Soldini.
With Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battison.
Italy/Switzerland, 2000, 35mm, color, 114 min.
Italian with English subtitles.
With Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battison.
Italy/Switzerland, 2000, 35mm, color, 114 min.
Italian with English subtitles.
One of the most beloved works of recent Italian cinema, the film begins when Rosabla, played marvelously by Maglietta, is left behind at a highway rest stop while on a vacation trip. Rather than figure out a way home, she decides to go off by herself and visit Venice. Soon after arriving, she falls in with a ragtag group of loners and eccentrics including Fernando (Ganz), a suicidal Icelandic waiter with whom she starts an affair. Soldini offers a poignant and humorous view of the complications of finding romance among characters who believe that life has passed them by.
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