To Rome with Love

Gorgeous shots of Rome highlight this engaging, typical Woody Allen, satirical, cameo-studded (Alec Baldwin, Carol Alt, and Giovanni Esposito), 102-minute, romantic comedy that follows an eclectic group of people in Rome, including an American architect (Jesse Eisenberg) who falls for the unemployed actress friend (Ellen Page) of his trusting lover (Greta Gerwig); a nervous, newly married Italian (Alessandro Tiberi) who reluctantly spends the afternoon with his snobbish relatives and a sexy prostitute (Penélope Cruz) who poses as his new bride after she unexpectedly turns up at his hotel room while his star-struck, astronomy teacher wife (Alessandra Mastronardi) gets lost and winds up being enamored with a pudgy, egotistical, cheating movie star (Antonio Albanese) who is desperately trying to seduce her; a retired classical movie executive (Woody Allen) who is in Italy with his wife (Judy Davis) to meet the handsome lawyer (Flavio Parenti) to whom his art dealing daughter (Alison Pill) is engaged ends up trying to promote a velvet-voiced mortician (Fabio Armiliato) as an opera singer after hearing him sing in the shower; and an average businessman (Roberto Benigni) with three children who finds himself suddenly coping with unexpected, fleeting fame.
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