To Rome with Love (2012)
Country: US/IT/SP
Technical: col 112m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Penélope Cruz, Greta Gerwig, Alessandro Tiberi, Alessandra Mastronardi
Synopsis:
A Roman traffic policeman introduces four unconnected stories from the capital, respectively themed around love, sexuality, celebrity and grand opera.
Review:
Allen's love letter to still another European city is less inspired by the cited idols of Fellini and Bertolucci than by the spirit of Luis Buñuel. As before in his oeuvre, the whimsical or conceptual device takes over from conventional narrative logic; so here we have a beautiful tenor voice that can only perform in the shower, and is given its deserved acclaim thanks to Allen's avant-garde opera director; and the newly weds who are separated and have sexual misadventures with a prostitute, a film star and a hotel burglar. Benigni's hapless clerk who inexplicably becomes famous overnight, and Eisenberg's Play it Again Sam relationship with architect mentor, Baldwin, are less successful, but throughout there is an air of writing-by-numbers about the film, with the director recycling his obsessions and neuroses for the umpteenth time, and saying little in truth about the city that is real or contemporary, even as Darius Khondji's camera captures the piazzas and monuments in all their summer, crepuscular beauty.
Country: US/IT/SP
Technical: col 112m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Penélope Cruz, Greta Gerwig, Alessandro Tiberi, Alessandra Mastronardi
Synopsis:
A Roman traffic policeman introduces four unconnected stories from the capital, respectively themed around love, sexuality, celebrity and grand opera.
Review:
Allen's love letter to still another European city is less inspired by the cited idols of Fellini and Bertolucci than by the spirit of Luis Buñuel. As before in his oeuvre, the whimsical or conceptual device takes over from conventional narrative logic; so here we have a beautiful tenor voice that can only perform in the shower, and is given its deserved acclaim thanks to Allen's avant-garde opera director; and the newly weds who are separated and have sexual misadventures with a prostitute, a film star and a hotel burglar. Benigni's hapless clerk who inexplicably becomes famous overnight, and Eisenberg's Play it Again Sam relationship with architect mentor, Baldwin, are less successful, but throughout there is an air of writing-by-numbers about the film, with the director recycling his obsessions and neuroses for the umpteenth time, and saying little in truth about the city that is real or contemporary, even as Darius Khondji's camera captures the piazzas and monuments in all their summer, crepuscular beauty.
Country: US/IT/SP
Technical: col 112m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Penélope Cruz, Greta Gerwig, Alessandro Tiberi, Alessandra Mastronardi
Synopsis:
A Roman traffic policeman introduces four unconnected stories from the capital, respectively themed around love, sexuality, celebrity and grand opera.
Review:
Allen's love letter to still another European city is less inspired by the cited idols of Fellini and Bertolucci than by the spirit of Luis Buñuel. As before in his oeuvre, the whimsical or conceptual device takes over from conventional narrative logic; so here we have a beautiful tenor voice that can only perform in the shower, and is given its deserved acclaim thanks to Allen's avant-garde opera director; and the newly weds who are separated and have sexual misadventures with a prostitute, a film star and a hotel burglar. Benigni's hapless clerk who inexplicably becomes famous overnight, and Eisenberg's Play it Again Sam relationship with architect mentor, Baldwin, are less successful, but throughout there is an air of writing-by-numbers about the film, with the director recycling his obsessions and neuroses for the umpteenth time, and saying little in truth about the city that is real or contemporary, even as Darius Khondji's camera captures the piazzas and monuments in all their summer, crepuscular beauty.