2000 · comedy · drama · romance
Bread and Tulips
Directed by Silvio Soldini1h 54m2000
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
Our read: Bread and Tulips (2000) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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“You want a gentle Italian escape about starting over in Venice with Bruno Ganz.”
Skip it tonight — You need tight pacing; this sweet comedy wanders through side plots too long.
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