To Rome with Love

To Rome with Love is an eclectic mix by Woody Allen. You find reality shoved in side by side with memory and fantasy for a surprising picture of dreams and desires battling reason and facts. If there's a moral you can take out of it, it's probably: don't take yourself or life too seriously. The good. Sincere and very interesting story that works to make us think. Nicely paced scenario. Solid dialogs. The actors. A star studded cast with nice results. I'll just name a few here: Penélope Cruz, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Alec Baldwin, and Roberto Benigni. The bad. Nothing. The ugly. Nothing. The result. A nice change of pace from most films produced these days.

This is a disappointing movie by Woody. It makes a very superficial analysis of the Italian society, which is described as totally frivolous, uninteresting and where women are driven by sexual curiosity rather than principals. Some aspects of the Italian society, such as the veneration for celebrity and the roman high society should have developed more, instead Woody just glanced over without any reflection. Overall the movie was totally commonplace, funny only rarely, and overall bad bad acting; only actor which was slightly amusing was Benigni, who was described as "typical Roman" in the introduction but spoke the whole movie with a Tuscan accent!! another example of Woody's superficiality in researching the movie.