Directed by : Woody Allen
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1859650/
There's a normal job guy, who wakes up one day suddenly to realize he has become a celebrity, a architect who walks through the place where he lived once as a student, a young couple who have come for honeymoon and a frustrated opera director who finds a singing talent in the father of the boy his daughter loves.
Woody Allen creates a good comedy out of these 4 seperate stories. There's some very funny sequences like the one where Jerry (Woody Allen) recognises how good Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti) sings during shower in bathroom, and then the way he urges him to sing at opera, that too under a shower because he sings well only when having a bathe.. too funny. Also, Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni) during the scene where he is followed by lots of journalists, and he returns back to home feeling scared, or the one where the camera shoots 'we will show him shave till the last and final stroke'.
Also, I liked the idea of John (Alec Baldwin) disturbing the conversations between Jack (Jesse Eisenberg), Monica (Ellen Page) and Sally (Greta Gerwig). Many times, he would give advance warnings or advice as what could happen if it isn't stopped now, and that brought good humour moments. For me, this story starts on a good note, but as it moves on.. it gets dull and also its quite predictable too except for the end maybe. I liked Ellen Page, she looked cute and still fit into the role of playing a girl who ends up seducing guys. Jesse (the social network fame), somehow looked odd to me in the character, somehow I wasn't satisfied with his performance, can even say he was the weakest among all in the film.
In the story of young honeymoon couple, the idea of call girl Anna (Penelope Cruz) and the wife Milly (Alessandra Mastronardi), of Antonio (Alessandro Tiberi) getting lost in a new place with no ways to get back in contact was good writing. My fav part was, all the uncomfortable meetings Antonio has to go around with that call girl, and the hotel sequence of Milly with a movie star she loves, and the entry of a thief to make it super hillarious.. my best infact from the movie. Probably felt that there were less scenes given to Antonio-Anna part, more importance went to Milly and her adventures. Woody Allen could had brought more humour out of the tough situation Antonio was in with that call girl.
Since, I haven't seen any of previous Woody Allen films.. so the locations of Rome were quite pleasing to see. Also, another good thing about the movie for me was, the ending.. If you notice, all the characters have committed some mistakes, specially young couple and Jack story. But, the director doesn't go into the mode of 'You did this, how could you', instead he shows their lives go smoothly and they never admit what mistakes in a particular moment happened with them. Maybe they would had admitted later in life, but in the film's time length it never happens.
Among the performances, I liked Roberto Bengigni the best, the way he portrayed a normal guy, and then a guy who has suddenly become so famous that he can't have free time with himself alone. Also, Woody Allen's funny reactions to the way he thought he has found a singing talent, and his continuous urge at the dining table, another hiallarious scene. Plus, Judy Davis who plays his wife in the movie gets some of the best written dialogues in the film. I like the conversations they both have at many parts of the movie, there would always be one line to crack you up.
To Rome with Love does bring enough laughs, but the film has lots of weak points especially if you try to think about 'how on earth is that possible' logics. Still, a good enough film to get entertained...
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1859650/
There's a normal job guy, who wakes up one day suddenly to realize he has become a celebrity, a architect who walks through the place where he lived once as a student, a young couple who have come for honeymoon and a frustrated opera director who finds a singing talent in the father of the boy his daughter loves.
Woody Allen creates a good comedy out of these 4 seperate stories. There's some very funny sequences like the one where Jerry (Woody Allen) recognises how good Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti) sings during shower in bathroom, and then the way he urges him to sing at opera, that too under a shower because he sings well only when having a bathe.. too funny. Also, Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni) during the scene where he is followed by lots of journalists, and he returns back to home feeling scared, or the one where the camera shoots 'we will show him shave till the last and final stroke'.
Also, I liked the idea of John (Alec Baldwin) disturbing the conversations between Jack (Jesse Eisenberg), Monica (Ellen Page) and Sally (Greta Gerwig). Many times, he would give advance warnings or advice as what could happen if it isn't stopped now, and that brought good humour moments. For me, this story starts on a good note, but as it moves on.. it gets dull and also its quite predictable too except for the end maybe. I liked Ellen Page, she looked cute and still fit into the role of playing a girl who ends up seducing guys. Jesse (the social network fame), somehow looked odd to me in the character, somehow I wasn't satisfied with his performance, can even say he was the weakest among all in the film.
In the story of young honeymoon couple, the idea of call girl Anna (Penelope Cruz) and the wife Milly (Alessandra Mastronardi), of Antonio (Alessandro Tiberi) getting lost in a new place with no ways to get back in contact was good writing. My fav part was, all the uncomfortable meetings Antonio has to go around with that call girl, and the hotel sequence of Milly with a movie star she loves, and the entry of a thief to make it super hillarious.. my best infact from the movie. Probably felt that there were less scenes given to Antonio-Anna part, more importance went to Milly and her adventures. Woody Allen could had brought more humour out of the tough situation Antonio was in with that call girl.
Since, I haven't seen any of previous Woody Allen films.. so the locations of Rome were quite pleasing to see. Also, another good thing about the movie for me was, the ending.. If you notice, all the characters have committed some mistakes, specially young couple and Jack story. But, the director doesn't go into the mode of 'You did this, how could you', instead he shows their lives go smoothly and they never admit what mistakes in a particular moment happened with them. Maybe they would had admitted later in life, but in the film's time length it never happens.
Among the performances, I liked Roberto Bengigni the best, the way he portrayed a normal guy, and then a guy who has suddenly become so famous that he can't have free time with himself alone. Also, Woody Allen's funny reactions to the way he thought he has found a singing talent, and his continuous urge at the dining table, another hiallarious scene. Plus, Judy Davis who plays his wife in the movie gets some of the best written dialogues in the film. I like the conversations they both have at many parts of the movie, there would always be one line to crack you up.
To Rome with Love does bring enough laughs, but the film has lots of weak points especially if you try to think about 'how on earth is that possible' logics. Still, a good enough film to get entertained...
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