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 Movie
B |
Video B | Audio B
| Extras D
Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston,
Antonio Catania, Marina Massironi, Vitalba Andrea
director Silvio Soldini | Columbia TriStar
2000 | Foreign (Italian) - Romance - Comedy - Drama
PG-13 | 116 minutes | Region 1 | DVD-9
anamorphic
widescreen
1.85:1 aspect ratio
Dolby Digital 5.1 (Italian
with English subtitles, no English dub)
Summary: Rosalba (Licia Maglietta) is a
busy, but under-appreciated Italian housewife who seem to have lost her
personal identity. While on an annual summer vacation with her
family, she accidentally gets left behind at a bus station. While
making her way home, she goes on a whim and catches a ride to the
beautiful city of Venice, a city she has been dreaming of visiting
forever. There, she finds beauty, freedom, and her
self-identity. She decides to stay longer. To support herself,
Rosalba takes a job as a florist and shares a room with a kind
stranger. She develops new and meaningful friendships, but things
get more complicated when her husband beckons her to return home.
Most of the movie is quite slow (compared to Hollywood standards), but the
character development is rich. If you want to try something new,
give this foreign romantic comedy a try. Who knows? You might
just like it.
Special Features: theatrical trailers for Bread
& Tulips, The Luzhin Defence, and The House of Mirth
DVD released on 3/26/2002 | Reviewed 4/30/2002
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Associated equipment used in evaluation: Sony
DVP-S7700 reference DVD player, Sony
KP-61V45 61" rear projection TV (4:3 screen aspect ratio), Sony ES STR-V444ES A/V receiver, four
B&W CDM 9NTs as left/right main speakers
and left/right surrounds, B&W CDM CNT center channel speaker, Monster Cable M-series S-Video cable MSV-500, Monster
Cable Interlink LightSpeed 100 (Toslink) optical cable, Monster Cable
Interlink 400 MKII interconnects, Monster Cable
Original speaker cables in bi-wire configuration with Monster Cable twist-on gold-plated banana plug
connectors, Lovan Sovereign T HiFi audio
rack, and Sony MDR-V600 studio monitor headphones. Our home theater equipment was calibrated
with the Video
Essentials DVD.
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