To Rome With Love

This classic work du art surely constitutes the second greatest comedy to have been written and directed by Woody Allen and represents his funniest movie to date with belly roaring laughs and hilarity from start to finish, despite the fact that the movie features some relatively unknown Italian cast who put in superb performances in what can truly be termed a masterpiece that incorporates one of the maestro’s best screenplays that totally draws the audiences into the mesmeric world of the characters, who are both believable, well developed and endearing. After seeing this movie, I now rank Vicky Christina Barcelona as Woody’s third finest work.The story comprises of four vignettes: one of which revolves around Woody's character, who was a maverick produces of what constitutes ridiculously conceived ideas for musicals, travelling to Rome to meet with his daughter’s boyfriend, only to overhear her boyfriend’s father singing in the shower and discovering a talent which he could introduce to the world and whose career he could manage by presenting him to the opera house with the caveat that he has to perform in a shower stall before live audience given the fact that he can only sing well in the shower, giving rise to the most absurd and iconoclastic opera performance ever produced to overwhelming response and standing ovations from the crowd; the second of which documents the unexpected and somewhat absurd rise to popularity of a non-descript clerk who suddenly finds the public going gaga over every aspect of his life, to such an extent that he becomes the subject of interviews, is mobbed by crowds vying for his autograph, reporters tailing him everywhere he goes and constantly pestering him with inane questions, special attention being given to him by restaurants, and women finding themselves unaccountably attracted to him and eagerly awaiting their turn at engaging in sexual intercourse with him, only to find that his popularity and fame is forsaken when the public turns their attention to another similarly ridiculously non-descript character who works as a bus driver; the third comprising of a young Italian couple relocating to Rome and hoping to create better prospects for themselves in this new city, only to find the husband being set up for a paid sexual encounter with a prostitute while his wife finds herself being seduced by a movie star whom she adores, and, having experience these less than satisfactory experiences, deciding to return to the town from which they came; and the last revolving around the life of an architecture, who, having revisited the home of his past, stumbles across the younger version of himself, who leads him to the apartment of his past and introduces him to his girlfriend; who, having introduced him to her best friend – an unemployed actress to whom men find themselves unaccountably attracted to, deliberately and insidiously draws him into engaging in an affair with her behind her friend's back against the advice of his older self, who having the wisdom of retrospect, realizes his past mistake. The story ends with the younger architect developing plans for a future between him and his girlfriend’s best friend, and planning to break the news to his girlfriend only to find himself being dumped when she receives a call from a major studio for a major part in a Hollywood production that will see her filming in Japan and abandoning him. Woody cleverly integrates these different storylines into a satisfying gestalt that is truly reflective of his genius as a writer and director.Highly recommended.

The movie was panned but, though it's far from being Allen's best film, it's quite enjoyable. It was shot on location in beautiful Rome with an international cast and...it's delightful. It even has the great Fabio Armiliato as a mortician that sings in the shower! The great Fabio is a spinto tenor so, he specializes in tragic characters. Allen realized that Amiliato is a born comedian .Fabio does not dub himself. The script - Allen's - is witty and delivered well by the illustrious cast. By the way, the great Penélope Cruz shines above the rest. She plays a whore - excuse my word - in Italian. Her voice was not dubbed; she has been filming in Spanish, French, English and Italian for years. Now, why do so many American critics love to hate Allen and Streisand when audiences around the world revere them, as well they should? Rhetorical question of course, Do try it if you would. I think you will like it.

Woody Allen seems to be churning out the films in his later years. There have been a few hits and a few misses. Unfortunately, TO ROME WITH LOVE is one of the films that misses the mark and falls flat to become one of Allen's mediocre films. Of course, one could not ask for a more magnificent cast and a gorgeous location. Who couldn't fall in love with Rome? Add in an international cast of top stars, and success is assured. Unfortunately, ambitious plans are often toppled by the weakest link and in TO ROME WITH LOVE, it is a totally flat, dead-end story.Of course, there are a lot of good things to say about TO ROME WITH LOVE but the film misses its potential on almost all levels. Allen is trying to tell 17 different stories (or it seems like 17) with an enormous cast and everyone has to have their time on screen to the detriment of the story. Beloved Italy actor/director Robert Benigni has a somewhat straight role and an everyday office worker with a wife and family. Even when he is playing it straight, Benigni is a joy to behold. His part of the story could be its own movie. Here is a simple man who, suddenly, for reasons never explained, becomes the toast of Italy pursued by the media and famous actresses. The world is at his feet, but why? It's a fun idea until the questions revolve around what he had for breakfast or the ever popular Boxers or Briefs? It seems like he's Italy's version of KING FOR A DAY.Another potential missed is the story of the young newly-married couple from a small Italian town who are moving to Rome. The wife accidentally gets lost on her way back to the hotel. She keeps asking for and getting complicated directions and gets more and more lost. Anyone who has traveled overseas has been in this situation but is a bit funnier when a native who speaks the language is lost like a tourist. Then her husband is caught in bed with the luscious Penelope Cruz. Cruz has never been sexier and she lights up the screen. It's a comedy of errors for the innocent husband. Again, this story could be a whole movie.Allen plays his usual annoying and neurotic self with Judy Davis as his shrew of a wife. They, but Allen especially, drag this story down. Their daughter is engaged to an Italian man so the two families meet. Allen is a retired music producer who releases that his daughter's future father-in-law has a magical opera voice. But, alas, the father can only sing well in the shower...so that leads to the next part of this story. Just wait at see.Here comes another cliche story involving a love triangle. Architecture student Jack (Jesse Eisenberg) is living in Rome with his girlfriend Sally. Sally's friend Monica (Ellen Page) has just broken up with her boyfriend and is comint to Rome to recover. No surprise that Jack and Monica suddenly find each other irresistible. Now it gets corny..The voice of reason or Jack's conscience is a famous American architect that Jack met by chance. Balwin's character is always somewhere in the scene off-camera. Now, at first he just seems to be joining them but he is always there and no one else responds to him.There is a lot of bed hopping going on in this film with married people and other partners. No one seems to have any remorse for their actions and in the end adultery seems to make each person a better husband or wife. I guess this is the message of TO ROME WITH LOVE.Several stories that are lost in the absolute beauty of Rome. Maybe Allen wanted to hire as many actors as he could. I wondered if the Italian actors, besides Benigni, are famous in Italy. The beautiful scenery does give the movie some soul as do the actors speaking in Italian. There could be a whole movie in Benigni's mysterious day as the hearthrob of Italy...an everyday man who for some unknown reason is the most popular man in Italy.TO ROME WITH LOVE should have been whittled down to a more digestible film. Instead, it is scattered and a few interesting morsels are thrown in here and there. Not Woody Allen's best film.

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J'adore ce film. Et je recommande le vendeur.

Una vez más las indicaciones de Amazon.es inducen a la confusión: ¿por qué se especifica desde hace muchos días en la web "A Roma con amor" [DVD] cuando la foto, las características y el precio corresponden al Blu ray? ¿Es que nadie pone atención ni revisa las fichas de compra?Todos los que hemos comprado en preventa este artículo vemos como aparece en nuestra cuenta que se trata de un DVD cuando, en realidad, todo indica que lo que se ofrece es el Blu ray.

Etwas für Woody Allen Freunde eine schöne Geschichte. Lieferung war unproblematisch und schnell, die Quallität ist wie beschrieben, alles Bestens, gerne wieder !

Non è certo uno dei migliori film di Allen ma rimane una simpatica commedia. Bravi attori come Roberto Benigni e Antonio albanese e molti molti altri.Personalmente ha il merito di avermi fatto conoscere un tenore di grandissimo spessore come Fabio Armiliato.