Bread and Tulips
2000 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy
Rosalba is a housewife in Pescara with teenage sons, married since 21 to a plumbing supplier whose mistress is her sister in law. When the tour bus leaves her, and her husband calls to tell her to stay put, she rebels slightly and hitchhikes toward home, deciding on a whim to continue to Venice. She lucks into a room in the flat of Fernando, a diffident, formal Icelander; befriends Grazia, a holistic masseuse; and, gets a job at the flower shop of Fermo, a cranky anarchist. Her husband sends a portly plumber to find her. Will duty and maternal instinct win out, or will Alba stay in Venice, combining Rome's rationality with Greece's imagination to find her true Italian self?
Direction Silvio Soldini
Cast Licia Maglietta · Bruno Ganz · Marina Massironi · Giuseppe Battiston · Felice Andreasi · Antonio Catania · Vitalba Andrea · Tatiana Lepore · Daniela Piperno · Tiziano Cucchiarelli · Matteo Febo · Lina Bernardi · Mauro Marino · Antonia Miccoli
Soundtrack Giovanni Venosta
Screenplay Doriana Leondeff · Silvio Soldini
Cinematography Luca Bigazzi
Original title Pane e tulipani
6.8
1K votes (FilmAffinity)
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