2004. Romantic Comedy. IMDB rating: 6.7/10 stars. My rating: 2/5 stars.Director: Silvio Soldini
Starring: Licia Maglietta (who also starred in Soldini's earlier Bread and Tulips), Giuseppe Battiston (also from Bread and Tulips), Emilio Solfrizzi with Marina Massironi (again, Bread and Tulips) and Claudio Santamaria
At this writing, available on DVD (FilmMovement), streaming on Netflix, and included streaming with Amazon Prime.
Why I could never show this to a high school class: several sex scenes with female waist-up nudity.
Who will like this movie? Fans of Diane Lane romantic comedies.
Agata owns a bookstore in Genova and is taken by surprise when a younger man starts giving her his attentions. She's already feeling a bit off because electrical devices tend to blow out in her vicinity. Her brother Gustavo is an architect feeling hum-drum about his life. Enter Romeo and a flood of identity issues and everyone's life is due for some change.
of cultural interest in this movie:
- use of the titles "Architetto" and "Geometra," along with extensive use of the formal voice.
- Italian language is very standard and easy to understand.
- Glimpses around Genova, a truly beautiful city.
- from time to time, Agata lapses into processing the world around her as an old black-and-white film. Voices in these episodes are dubbed-over and sound like they are projected in an old theater in the style of Cinema Paradiso.
Additionally, the opening song, El Pajaro, by Lhasa is beautiful and worth looking into of its own right.
In general, I am not a fan of romantic comedies, and this one was no exception. Too many quirky traits and incidents culminated to launch the unbelievability factor far beyond reasonable fantasy.
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