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Italian Film Friday, March 20, 2009, 6:30pm
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Bread and Tulips | Pane e Tulipani |
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| Bread and Tulips is a slight film. A light comedy that covers old ground, it's the oft-told story of a woman escaping from the prison of a bad marriage and an unappreciated duty-bound existence as a housewife to blossom suddenly in middle age. It may surprise you to learn that Bread and Tulips won nine the Italian Academy Awards (the David Di Donatello awards) last year. Though there's no denying that Bread and Tulips is just a feel-good movie, it is a delightfully executed, simple, and unassuming film, not drowned in cloying syrupiness like most Italian films that have made it Stateside over the past ten years
Production: Italy/Switzerland 2000 |
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