Review of Bread and Tulips

This is one of my favorite films, largely because of the wonderful cast, which includes the marvelous Bruno Ganz and the splendid Licia Maglietta, as well as many outstanding, but less well-known (to me) actors.

The central story is the developing love between a married woman and a unmarried older man in Venice. The man is not Italian but has learned to speak Italian in a way which is so courtly and refined that at first it puzzles the woman.

I don't want to reveal any more of the plot except to say there is a very happy ending.