
To Rome With Love
2012, Romance, 1h 51m
181 Reviews 25,000+ RatingsWhat to know
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To Rome With Love sees Woody Allen cobbling together an Italian postcard of farce, fantasy, and comedy with only middling success. Read critic reviews
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Jerry
John
Leopoldo
Phyllis
Jack
Sally
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Critic Reviews for To Rome With Love
All Critics (181) | Top Critics (64) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (98)
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It's not a bad film, but TO ROME WITH LOVE is very minor Woody Allen.
October 18, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/5 -
You would need a heart of anthracite (or an address in Lazio) to sit through To Rome With Love without emitting a snigger.
September 14, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
This stale and flaccid exercise looks as if it has come from one of those old notebooks in which [Allen] keeps discarded ideas.
September 14, 2012 | Full Review… -
The film's litany of bad ideas overshadows any of its thematic concerns.
September 13, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 -
It's like being in boring old Heaven when you thought you had won a ticket to exciting, seriocomical Purgatory.
September 13, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
There is some fun to be had with all the discomfiture and unease; but some of the jokes and situations simply don't work.
September 13, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for To Rome With Love
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Jun 04, 2014"To Rome with Love" starts with American tourist Hayley(Alison Pill) meeting cute Michelangelo(Flavio Parenti) in Rome. Following which they fall in love. Soon after, her parents(Judy Davis and Woody Allen) come to visit. Meanwhile, Leopoldo(Roberto Benigni) becomes famous. Jack(Jesse Eisenberg) recognizes John(Alec Baldwin) as a notable architect on the streets of Rome. Jack lives with Sally(Greta Gerwig) whose friend Monica(Ellen Page), an underemployed actor, is set to visit them. Antonio(Alessandro Tiberi) and Milly(Alessandra Mastronardi), a couple of newlyweds come to Rome. While looking for a hairdresser, Milly gets hopelessly lost while Antonio gets an unexpected visit from Anna(Penelope Cruz), a prostitute. Like a lot of Woody Allen's recent movies, "To Rome with Love" is a near miss, almost frustratingly so. On the plus side, the movie is a valuable reminder as to how much a valuable treasure Judy Davis is and if any actors were born to be in a Woody Allen film, it would be Jesse Eisenberg and Greta Gerwig.(To be honest, that segment would have been better if Gerwig and Page had swapped roles.) Plus, this movie is actually kind of deep at times, not to mention wistful, as it has more than a few things to say on the subject of fame which Woody Allen might know a thing or two about. But apparently he has forgotten how to do farce as well as he used to, much less as well as "Orphan Black." That's not to mention the unwieldy structure, as the uneven segments should have run back to back instead of crosscutting between them, due to the different time frames involved in each. Even worse, no segment is as fully developed as it should have been. And then there is the one with the shower which should have sounded even too ludicrous on paper which is where it should have been left.Walter M Super Reviewer
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Sep 20, 2013To Rome with Love represents one of Allen's lesser works of the past decade, especially in light of the brilliant Blue Jasmine and Midnight in Paris. It is a slight film, and only sporadically funny. Woody Allen is the master of the lighthearted comedy, but his best work finds the human dynamics at play, and gives us humor with a biting satirical edge. To Rome with Love simply feels too gimmicky with its plot devices, and too on-the-nose with its humor. Consider the plot line involving the Italian man who becomes famous for no reason, it's all too obvious and inexplicable, even for Allen. The biggest failing with To Rome with Love is that none of the story-lines are especially compelling, nor are they connected with any ingenuity. It's all too light, whimsical, and shallow. That is the most striking indictment against the film, it's shallow. Allen is capable of great nuance and some of the most intelligent humor put to film, To Rome with Love is simply lazy Allen on autopilot. It has some charm, to be sure, with a few funny moments, but the film feels too derivative of Allen's earlier works, especially his lesser works. The cast feels wasted amidst a script that doesn't give them any real room to develop, placing its characters in increasingly absurd situations for the sake of absurdity. It's all very over-done and lackluster in its execution. A disappointment all around, especially for any serious Woody Allen fan. 2/5 StarsJeffrey M Super Reviewer
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Jun 29, 2013Scattered and occasionally nonsensical but there are enough pleasant bits to balance out the things that don't work to make it an overall enjoyable filmjay n Super Reviewer
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Feb 16, 2013This would be quite good and funny if the direction were imaginative enough to add to the charming scenes Allen's screenplay has to offer. Instead, we're left with its unfocused and mainly uninteresting plot that was only asking for a little help from the visuals.Emile T Super Reviewer
To Rome with Love Quotes
Jerry: | If you're channeling Freud, ask for my money back. |
Jerry: | What do you have against live people? Your whole life you can't just be with people who have rigor mortis. |
Jerry: | I can't unclench when there's turbulence. You know, I'm an atheist. |
Jerry: | Don’t try and psychoanalyze me. Many have tried, all have failed. My brain doesn’t fit the usual ego, superego model. |
Jerry: | Don't try and psychoanalyze me. Many have tried, all have failed. My brain doesn?t fit the usual ego, superego model. |
Phyllis: | No, you have the only brain with three ids. |
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