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To Rome with Love (Dir. Woody Allen/2012)
You could easily mistake this for a foreign film considering
the amount of Italian spoken. Indeed, Woody Allen is a writer who has sharp wit
and snappy dialogue sewn up in the English language, at least the Italian
verbal acrobats don’t seem out of place. To
Rome with Love is familiar Woody Allen, recycling his best narrative
devices – a kind-of, but-not-really imaginary figure (The Purple Rose of Cairo); a glorious, picture-postcard location portraying
flowing, Trevi fountains and Roman ruins (Manhattan,
Midnight in Paris); seduction and adultery dominating multiple plot threads
interwoven amongst an ensemble cast. Even Woody himself is acting! But Mighty-Aphrodite-prostitutes in
Penelope Cruz, Fellini references to fame and irrelevant bookends by a traffic
director busy the true purpose of the film. Almost a selection of thoughts from
Woody Allen’s brain, rather than a solid story. It stands like a stone
sculpture but it’s a little shaky at times.
Rating: 6/10
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