Pane e tulipani

"Imagine your life. Now go live it."

Nov 2 2001 PG-13 1h 54m
Comedy, Romance

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.

Plot

Life is often just "for sake of" and we need to know about it and want to benefit when we are presented with the occasion to. A bit for "sake of", a bit for choice, Rosalba, young and apart from anything a housewife of Pescara, during a bus trip after she found herself alone and...forgotten in a highway café, decides not to wait for her husband and sons to come back to pick her up but instead decides to find her own way home. She is a little offended that she has been forgotten by her family and has been told by her husband to stay put so, rebelling a little she finds herself hitch-hiking direct for Venice. Her adventure in Venice begins meeting strange but fascinating people. Fermo; an anarchistic florist, Grazia; a masseuse and Fernando; a waiter from Iceland that speaks his own language of Italian.

Written by

Silvio Soldini, Doriana Leondeff

Directed by

Silvio Soldini

Production Countries

Italy

Production Companies

Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Monogatari

Languages

Italiano

Awards

32 wins & 13 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
12,366
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
68
Popularity
NA