Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Bread and Tulips

Italy

Very charming film about a frazzled, unappreciated hausfrau who, after being abandoned/forgotten by her family, decides to take a vacation from her life. She ends up in Venice, gets a job, a housemate, friends, a new life.

Fairytale-ish perhaps but the lead was winning, Bruno Ganz was an unexpected pleasure as an ex-Icelander, ex-prisoner who shares his apartment and life with this stray and wins us over with his formal circumlocutions right out of a Victorian novel.

If only life worked this way.

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