Ornella Muti and Roberto Benigni. For me "To Rome with love" is the best comedy this summer that raised my mood to the cosmic heights. Thank you Woody and long life.

more enjoyable movie experience. This is certainly another instance where reviewers' dyspeptic pieces can be safely ignored.

shower and how that is handled is an utter joy to watch. How the young man discovers love with his girlfriend's best friend is amazing and how he reconciles with his girlfriend is pure Hollywood gold.Alec Baldwin serves as a mentor to Jesse Eisenberg. Judy Davis, who plays Allen's psychiatrist wife looks more and more like the late Geraldine Page. If ever they make Page's biography, she should definitely have the lead role.Roberto Benigni is as clever as ever as the common man whose opinions are suddenly valued. When his fleeting fame ends, he longs for it.This is a real crowd pleaser of a film.

married to a hooker, or the object of a movie star's affections, or on a romantic rendezvous with a thief, or having the ability to change the world with one simple idea. It will take you to wherever your heart desires. And then you'll realize why it's often advised to think with your brain rather than with your heart.Half Italian and half English, we follow two relationships involving Romans and two relationships with Americans in Rome. A young, Italian, married couple get separated and the young man finds himself living out every other young man's fantasies while the young woman finds herself living out her own fantasies.Hayley Alison Pill , a New Yorker transplanted in Rome, falls in love and gets engaged to a successful Roman lawyer. Her parents Woody Allen and Judy Davis make the trek across the ocean to meet their in-laws. But Allen's obsession with death and equating retirement with death causes him to create a national disaster or success story, depending on how you look at it .Jack Jesse Eisenberg is an American architect living in Rome with his girlfriend. First he meets his architecture idol, John Alec Baldwin , who sees Jack as the younger version of himself. Or more accurately, Jack sees John as the older version of himself the joke works better that way . Then Jack meets Monica Ellen Page who is his girlfriend's best friend and is the object of all men's fantasies.Page also gets to play the role of the self-obsessed, pseudo-intellectual — commonly referred to as "the pedantic one" in most Woody Allen movies. Other than Allen himself, Eisenberg and Baldwin play a sort of tag-team version of the self-deprecating, neurotic hero, although this time with a touch of confidence.Confidence is not to be confused with optimism because as funny as "To Rome with Love" is, it also has Allen's usual undertone of pessimism. Death is going to come sooner than you would like, but not soon enough. And even if you do get to live out your heart's fantasies, they may not lead to everything that you hoped for. This film is the comedy version of death and negativity, and can provide you with the simple joys in life.

who interposes himself into the life of a young U.S. architecture student living in Rome; and an ordinary citizen Roberto Benigni who overnight inexplicably finds himself a major celebrity.Things I learned about Woody Allen from this film: he hasn't lost his touch as a director; he hasn't lost his touch as an actor, as long as he can play Woody Allen; he hasn't lost the ability to write some of the funniest lines you'll ever hear in a movie.Other things I learned: filling a movie with beautiful women--Ellen Page, Alessandra Mastronardi, Penélope Cruz--is generally a very good idea; Penélope Cruz was born to play an extremely sought-after high-class prostitute. My wife and I enjoyed this film, and it was clear that other people in the theater liked it as well. Question: why is it rated 6.3 by the IMDb voters? Here's another case--see my review of "First Position"--where I wonder if the voters who gave it a 6 saw the same movie that I saw. "To Rome with Love" is a funny, intelligent film with great acting and great views of Rome. See it and decide for yourself whether it deserves a 6.3 or a 9.

a live-in girlfriend Greta Gerwig he supposedly is much in love with. What a curveball when her longtime, struggling-actress pal Ellen Page shows up to turn his attentions in a new direction. An older building designer Alec Baldwin is around to give him advice. There is also the gentle clerk Roberto Benigni who suddenly captures the world's attention, even to what kind of underwear he sports! And, what about the young married couple, straight from the country, who come to Rome for a new, wealthier life and get tangled up with a call girl Penelope Cruz and a philandering actor? What doings and what romance is in the air! Dear Woody, don't be scared, but I am a number one fan, among many in the world. Therefore, every work you create is like adding a new element to the periodic table. This one is fresh, funny, clever, and utterly gorgeous in its photography. The cast, very large, is also terrific! Bravo! For all you film fans everywhere, in Rome, New York, or Peoria, go see it. Immediately, if not sooner.

that Allen simply loves to discuss. The cast is charming and I want to highlight a sincere Roberto Benigni; Jesse Eisenberg, that resembles perfectly the young Woody Allen; and the beautiful and talented Ellen Page, with a powerful character that makes you impossible not to fall in love with her.I have the huge bias of been a Woody Allen fan and that is probably why I enjoyed so much this movie. It is thrilling to see him acting again. See all that neurosis again in the big screen. This movie surprises, can be as surreal as Buñuel would be and also as real as Allen is with daily problematics.

written. And at a time when so many comedies are aimed only at 15 year olds, even 2nd tier Woody, simply telling playfully comic tales, is a welcome sight.

see was a microphone that was visible in some scenes... Is it really possible that such a mistake can be made by Woody Allen??Ah, and great to see Rome in a movie, fantastic town.