Bread and Tulips | Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz | Feel-good chick flick . . .     vhs video:     Bread and Tulips   Bread and Tulips Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz Sony Pictures, 2002 average customer review:based on 78 reviews view larger image  for more information click here        highly recommended Wonderful I loved this sweet movie about a housewife who is so taken for granted that her family accidentally leaves her at a rest stop in Italy. The lady, Rosalba, goes on her own vacation to Venice and, among a lovely group of people (a lonely Icelandic waiter beautifully portrayed, an eccentric holistic masseuse, a sweet muddling plumber/detective, an anachist flowershop owner), rediscovers her passion for the accordian, life and the importance of not being distracted from what is of lasting value. Feel-good chick flick . . . This light romantic comedy could be described as a chick flick for those a bit older and wiser than the target audience for most current Hollywood movies in this genre. Like its predecessor "Shirley Valentine," it follows a married woman as she escapes a housewife's life and finds another more to her liking. So marginal in her own family that she gets left behind at a tour bus stop, and acting on a combination of impulses, she takes a vacation on her own in that most romantic of cities, Venice, and meets there (among a comical assortment of characters) a man who steals her heart. The leisurely pace of the story and the gently comic humor are just right. Difficulties are eventually resolved without great effort, sometimes in unpredictable ways, and you relax into a feel-good world where kindred spirits meet and live happily ever after. Goes well with a bottle of Italian wine - shared, of course.  for more information click here Second Chance at Life and Love I admit it. I love a sappy movie, the more Kleenex's the better. I was not disappointed with this one. This is the kind of movie that just calls for buying a few bottles of good wine, some great cheese and fruit and some crusty Italian bread, and inviting over some good friends. I admit I was a bit put off when I realized it was subtitled in English but spoken in Italian, but it didn't take long to get used to the subtitles, and the Italian language playing in the background of my reading only added to the feeling of the movie, not detracted from it. If you are at that age when it feels like life is one big rut, and you long to do something wild and adventurous, then you can live out your fantasy in this movie. The other reviews will fill you in on what the movie is about. All I can tell you is I watched this one and immediately ordered it to add to my collection, right between Falling in Love with Meryl Streep, Bridges of Madison County, Pay it Forward, and Shirley Valentine. Get it. Unless you are a husband who can't figure out why women act so loco around fifty, you'll love it.  for more information click here Made Me Drowsy 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 canalled 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.  for more information click here Shirley Valentine Ripoff See the movie "Shirley Valentine" instead. "Shirley Valentine" is to "Bread and Tulips" what "Eat Drink Man Woman" was to "Tortilla Soup." It steals the idea from that movie, but doesn't do it justice. It's slightly different, but you can tell where it came from, and if you like the plot, see the real thing. Cause Shirley Valentine is really funny. reviews: 1, 2, 3, page 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 products you might be interested in   search for videos bread and tulips, bread, tulips      toavi.com    web randomly chosen DVD: The Ramrodder / Revenge of the Virgins