All Roads Lead to Rome

Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a journey to a Tuscan village where she frequented in her younger days. Upon arrival, Maggie runs into Luca a handsome former lover who is still a bachelor and lives with his eighty-year-old mother Carmen. Summer (missing her “bad boy” boyfriend in NYC) and Carmen (secretly planning a wedding against Luca’s wishes to MARCELINO, her one true love in Rome) impulsively steal Luca’s car and race off to Rome. Maggie and Luca quickly pursue allowing the two mismatched couples to spend some time together and develop a new understanding of each other.

Our read · All Roads Lead to Rome (2016) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast constellation

New Year's Eve

2011

Sarah Jessica Parker thread

Sarah Jessica Parker

same tone

Failure to Launch

2006

Sarah Jessica Parker thread

Sarah Jessica Parker

same tone

Under the Tuscan Sun

2003

Raoul Bova thread

Raoul Bova

same tone

Sex and the City 2

2010

Sarah Jessica Parker thread

Sarah Jessica Parker

same tone

Sarah Jessica Parker

actor path

New Year's Evesame toneFailure to Launchsame toneSex and the City 2same tone

Paz Vega

actor path

10 Items or Lessnear DNAGrace of MonacoadjacentSpanglish (2004)near DNA

Claudia Cardinale

actor path

A Summer in La Goulettenear DNAThe Pink Panther (1963)adjacentThe Artist and the Modeladjacent

Raoul Bova

actor path

Under the Tuscan Sunsame toneUnique Brotherssame toneStill Fabuloussame tone