To Rome with Love2012
To Rome with Love (2012)
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Critic Consensus: To Rome With Love sees Woody Allen cobbling together an Italian postcard of farce, fantasy, and comedy with only middling success.
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as Jerry
as John
as Leopoldo Pisanello
as Anna
as Phyllis
as Jack
as Sally
as Monica
as Giancarlo
as Giancarlo
as Milly
as Pia Fusari
as Michelangelo
as Hayley
as Antonio
as Luca Salta
as Uncle Paolo
as Hotel Robber
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Critic Reviews for To Rome with Love
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Is To Rome with Love great Woody Allen? No. It's not even very good Woody Allen. It's probably mediocre Woody Allen, at best. But mediocre Woody Allen is still better than the majority of the movies made today.
Allen's creative revival comes to a juddering halt with a foursome of would-be amusing vignettes that barely muster a laugh between them.
Once upon a time, calling a movie "lesser Woody Allen" might be considered a slap in the face. Now, it's more-or-less expected.
Allen's story moves along quite wonderfully, primarily because of his nuanced casting.
Most of the characters are archetypes, yet Allen treats them with genuine affection and avoids the bitterness that's marred much of his recent work.
It's minor Woody, but it's still Woody.
Audience Reviews for To Rome with Love
A minor Woody Allen that is basically a collection of sitcom jokes stretched to the point of repetitious. Besides, even with some good moments, the film disappoints for never using Rome as an organic setting, since these stories could take place anywhere.
Super Reviewer
I was really excited that Ellen Page was going to play Monica, the newest installation of Woody's neurotic/erotic female fantasy, because while she had made her career playing quirky/damaged girls, there's an irresistible quality in her that I find sexy and sensual. Instead, either Woody directed her or she acted as her usual loquacious faux-savant. Styling could have helped. Page needn't have glammed up or channeled Penelope Cruz, but it seems like every aspect of Monica's personality (whether sexy or banal) is spoken of and determined by others, not actually shown on the screen by Page's performance or costuming. Her friend, Sally, keeps saying she's so attractive, but Alec Baldwin's old-man-guide character keeps criticizing her pretentious art and literary references that I wonder why Jack even falls for her. If characters undercut other characters, there isn't much for the audience to fall for. Woody often has such a way with his actresses - whether lighting them or just getting them to smile more. I never thought much of Alison Pill, but she is radiant in a girl-next-door part just because she smiles and wears white and has more outdoor scenes in natural light. The rest of the movie is Woody's typical, below average, antic-ridden ensemble comedy.
Super Reviewer
Scattered and occasionally nonsensical but there are enough pleasant bits to balance out the things that don't work to make it an overall enjoyable film
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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. |