Licia Maglietta plays the Italian every-woman in this 2000 comedy. She is literally left behind at a bus station by her family while she tries to fish out her wedding ring at the bottom of a toilet, which is essentially her marriage to an over excitable toilet-fixture businessman with a buxom mistress. So, what does our left behind spouse do; she hitchhikes to Venice and arranges to miss her bus home repeatedly as she finds work and a new life in a beautiful canaled city. Enter Bruno Ganz, a suicidal waiter that falls for her immediately. She plays the accordion; he sings. You get the idea, quirky.
The film develops very slowly and the laughs are here and there. Licia is nice and we want her to find happiness, but I must say there is a TV sitcom feel to the film, which probably didn't bother the Europeans, but here in America, awash with nightly sitcoms, I felt a little drowsy through Bread and Tulips.
The film develops very slowly and the laughs are here and there. Licia is nice and we want her to find happiness, but I must say there is a TV sitcom feel to the film, which probably didn't bother the Europeans, but here in America, awash with nightly sitcoms, I felt a little drowsy through Bread and Tulips.