Written
August 12, 2012
To Rome with Love
Set against the wonderful backdrop of Rome, this movie follows the stories of four different sets of characters whose experiences are gently satirized by director Woody Allen, who plays a retired avante-garde opera director. We meet Allen and his wife, a psychiatrist, as Allen's character bemoans the turbulence in the airplane and becomes anxious. Allen (Jerry) meets the father of his daughter's Italian fiance, shaking hands only to discover that he is a mortician and has not yet cleaned up...Allen's expression and subsequent awareness of the hand that has touched a dead body and then touched him is a great sight gag. Moments like this abound throughout the movie - a call girl is mistaken for the provincial wife of a newly-married young man, in the meantime the wife has lost her way, lost her phone, and ends up considering an affair with her favorite movie star...I found the movie mildlly entertaining -worth seeing, if only for the Roman scenery, but I would not buy it.
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7
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11
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