Bread and tulips

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Movie
German title Bread & tulips
Original title Pane e tulipani
Country of production Italy , Switzerland
original language Italian
Publishing year 2000
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Silvio Soldini
script Doriana Leondeff
Silvio Soldini
music Giovanni Venosta
camera Luca Bigazzi
cut Carlotta Cristiani
occupation

Bread & Tulips (original title: Pane e tulipani) is an Italian film directed by Silvio Soldini from 2000 with Licia Maglietta and Bruno Ganz in the leading roles.

action

Rosalba, a housewife and mother of two from Pescara , missed her bus at a motorway service station on the way back from Paestum . Her husband Mimmo, the owner of a plumber's wholesale business, only realizes a few kilometers later that she is not on the bus; he has her called out at the rest stop. Rosalba waits there for the time being, but then decides to hitchhike home. But suddenly the opportunity arises for her to go to Venice , where she always wanted to go. She takes a room and informs her family by phone that she is in Venice and that she wants to come home the next day.

After visiting the city, she missed her train and because of the circumstances (she hardly has any money left), she is allowed to stay overnight with Fernando, an Icelandic waiter in a small restaurant who speaks a foreign-sounding and old-fashioned Italian and later move into her own room. She begins a friendship with the neighbor Grazia and then by chance finds work in a flower shop, with the anarchist florist Fermo. At night, however, she feels guilty about her family, especially because of her youngest son.

Her husband Mimmo does not tolerate her surprising and prolonged absence; he finally hires a private detective. For cost reasons, he gave Costantino, who found himself at Mimmo's company for an interview as a plumber and said reading crime novels as a passionate hobby, was to find his wife and bring her home. After several days of unsuccessful search, Rosalba contacts him - he has distributed posters with her face and his phone number around town - and they arrange a meeting. When Costantino gets a call from his mother, Rosalba runs away to Fernando's apartment. Costantino can follow her and meets Grazia in front of the house; she thinks he is a registered customer and the massage has hardly started when they fall in love.

In the meantime, Rosalba feels more and more drawn to Fernando and she enjoys her new life (she has also rediscovered playing the accordion for herself) until her husband's lover appears in Venice and can persuade her to return to Pescara.

Rosalba returns to an unchanged environment, which is characterized by the routine of everyday life. But Fernando, feeling lonely and desperate in Venice, can decide to win back Rosalba. He borrows Fermo's delivery van and travels to Pescara with Grazia and Costantino. In the parking lot of a supermarket, in the presence of her youngest son, he was able to convince her to move to Venice.

criticism

  • Cineclub: “ Bread and Tulips is one of the most unspectacular films in cinema history. But because of his authentic and lovable characters, he goes to the heart and is simply a pleasure. "
  • Allesfilm: " Bread and tulips have a broad impact without a doubt: Here, although the characters have been lovingly honed, in case of doubt the next best joke is always closer than the real person ... Wherever you play with traditional genre patterns, you have to bring size into shape . Unfortunately, it stays in the hand luggage with Soldini. "
  • Kulturnews: “ Bread and Tulips is a wonderfully romantic comedy that thrives on the atmosphere of Venice, but above all on the perfect interplay of the characters. Soldini's film is at the same time an appeal to spontaneity, to break out of the sometimes overwhelming structure of everyday life, to rebel against any 'you don't do that' attitude. A film that has earned its nine (!) Awards with the Italian film award 'David di Donatello' and which is a real bright spot for a gray overcast December. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cineclub.de, accessed on January 2, 2010 [1]
  2. ↑ Allesfilm.com, accessed on January 2, 2010 [2]
  3. ↑ Kulturnews.de, accessed on January 2, 2010 [3]