Just saw a wonderful little Italian slice-of-life comedy, Bread and Tulips, starring Licia Maglietti and Bruno Ganz and directed by Silvio Soldini, none of whom I have heard of before. Licia Maglietti reminds me of an Italian Helen Mirren and Bruno Ganz reminds me of no one I've seen before except perhaps Boris Karloff. This movie won a bunch of prizes in Europe and is as good and possibly better than Il Postino and the famous Italian movie about the old movie theater.
Licia Maglietti, married with two teenage boys and an obnoxious husband, is left behind by the tour bus on her family's vacation, and instead of going home, goes off on a lark to Venice where she makes some new friends and discovers some new things about herself. Anybody who doesn't like this movie is simply sub-human.
