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Bread and Tulips (Pane E Tulipani) (12A)
- Consumer Advice: Contains one use of strong language
- Run time: 1 hour 56 mins
- Language: Italian
- Genre: Comedy
- Release date: 23rd September 2005
- Starring: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston
- Directed by: Silvio Soldini
- Distributor: Capers Productions Ltd
Plot Synopsis
Rosalba is a housewife in Pescara with teenage sons, married since 21 to a plumbing supplier whose mistress is her sister-in-law. When a tour bus leaves her, and her husband calls to tell her to stay put, she rebels slightly and hitchhikes toward home, deciding on a whim to continue to Venice. She lucks into a room in the flat of Fernando, a diffident, formal Icelander, befriends Grazia, a holistic masseuse, and gets a job at the flower shop of Fermo, a cranky anarchist. Her husband sends a portly plumber to find her. Will duty and maternal instinct win out, or will Alba stay in Venice, combining Rome's rationality with Greece's imagination to find her true Italian self?