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Bread and Tulips (2000)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 62
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 18

Bread and Tulips is a sweet-natured comedy offering gentle, escapist entertainment.

Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 5

Bread and Tulips is a sweet-natured comedy offering gentle, escapist entertainment.

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Silvio Soldino directs this gentle comedy about a housewife who temporarily flees from the grinding tedium of her household duties and drifts into a world of amicable weirdos. When Rosalba (Licia Maglietta) is accidentally forgotten by her tour bus at a roadside restaurant, she does not wait there as instructed. She decides to hitchhike home, but on a whim, she ends up in Venice instead. Quietly exhilarated at the prospect of being alone for a spell, she checks into an inn run by a kindly yet

PG-13, 1 hr. 56 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Comedy

Directed By: Silvio Soldini

Written By: Silvio Soldini, Doriana Leondeff

In Theaters: Aug 10, 2001 Limited

On DVD: Mar 26, 2002

Box Office:$3.4M

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Critic Reviews for Bread and Tulips

All Critics (74) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (18) | DVD (7)

Although Maglietta's appealing as Rosalba, cowriter and director Silvio Scoldini's movie is a little too shopworn and pokey to be more than a respectable European diversion.

January 6, 2002 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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Leisurely paced and very easy to watch.

December 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

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It's almost as if Solidini ... figured that all he had to do was put a crowd of eccentric characters together and magic would occur.

November 2, 2001 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

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As for star Licia Maglietta, the appeal of the film is nearly all in her presence.

November 2, 2001 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

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A slight tale, charmingly told.

September 28, 2001 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News

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Philip Wuntch

Dallas Morning News

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Um filme charmoso e cativante.

June 7, 2003 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

The last 20 minutes of the film include some of the most romantic filmmaking in a long time.

June 2, 2003 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Jamie Gillies

Apollo Guide

A feel-good film with a schmaltzy love offering of tulips and bread.

April 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It is a very positive film in many ways. It argues that just about anybody can be redeemed.

March 13, 2002 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

A slow-going but very, very sweet movie.

February 9, 2002 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com

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Eric D. Snider

EricDSnider.com

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A pleasant film. Not fabulous, but engaging and sweetly amusing, with some enjoyable oddball characters and cute plot twists. What holds the whole thing together well is a likeable, warm, centered performance my Licia Maglietta, whose manages to keep her role from becoming pathetic, silly, or annoying--as it might have

May 2, 2011