Breaking Up in Rome

Aspiring writer Tommaso makes a living by penning the self-help column of a women's magazine. One day he receives a letter from a reader asking for advice on how to break up with her man: it is none other than Zoe, his partner of ten years, unaware of his pseudonymous side job. Tommaso can't believe his eyes and answers her in private to learn more.

Our read · Breaking Up in Rome (2021) reads as a warm, steady, grounded romance · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent 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

The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles

2015

2 cast reunion

Edoardo Leo · Stefano Fresi

same tone

I Can Quit Whenever I Want

2014

2 cast reunion

Edoardo Leo · Stefano Fresi

same tone

Nine and a Half Moons

2017

2 cast reunion

Claudia Gerini · Stefano Fresi

same tone

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem

2017

2 cast reunion

Edoardo Leo · Stefano Fresi

near DNA

Edoardo Leo

actor path

I Can Quit Whenever I Wantsame toneThe Legendary Giulia and Other Miraclessame toneAll You Need is Crimesame tone

Marta Nieto

actor path

MotheradjacentVisionsadjacentCombustionadjacent

Claudia Gerini

actor path

Amiche da moriresame toneLove Is in the Airsame tonePer tutta la vitasame tone

Stefano Fresi

actor path

I Can Quit Whenever I Wantsame toneThe Legendary Giulia and Other Miraclessame toneKidzsame tone