To Rome with Love

 Italy is one of the countries which I really want to visit, because my father always tells me how beautiful Italy is. My dad believes that Italy is the most wonderful and beautiful country and cuisines are the best. So when this film To Rome with Love was released recently, I was really excited; furthermore, this is written and directed by Woody Allen. I saw the film Midnight in Paris and it was so much fun because of its french scenes, interesting story, and a wonderful music.
The story is told in four each vignettes; an ordinary office worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, a young couple who come from the country on their honeymoon, a man who has a talent for singing, and an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on. To be honest, I don't like this movie because I don't know what this movie wants to tell us. Even if the sceneries of the film is so great, the story lines are not attractive to me.

 In Rome, the America tourist Hayley meets the local lawyer Michelangelo on the street and soon they fall in love with each other. Hayley's parents, the psychiatrist Phyllis and the retired music producer Jerry(Woody Allen), travel to Rome to meet Michelangelo and his parents. When Jerry listens to Michelangelo's father Giancarlo singing opera in the shower, he is convinced that he is a talented opera singer. But there is a problem: Giancarlo can only sing in the shower. The couple Antonio and Milly travel to Rome to meet Antonio's relatives that belong to the high society. Milly goes to the hairdresser while Antonio waits for her in the room. Milly gets lost in Rome and the prostitute Anna mistakenly goes to Antonio's room.  To make matters worse, his relatives arrive in the room and they believe Anna is Antonio's wife. Meanwhile the shy Milly meets her favorite actor Luca Salta and goes to his hotel room "to discuss about movies". One day, the middle-class clerk Leopoldo becomes a celebrity and is hunted by the paparazzo. A couple of days later, he is forgotten by the media. The American architect John travels to Rome with his wife and feels nostalgic since he lived in the city thirty years ago when he was a student. He meets the student of architecture Jack, who lives on the same street that John had lived, and he invited to drink a coffee at his house. Jack lives with his girlfriend Sally (Greta Gerwig) that invites her best friend Monica to stay with them in their house. But soon Jack has a crush on Monica and they promise that they travel together and love forever.

 Of course, performances of actors and actresses are great; especially Woody Allen is the most impressive character. However, what bothers me is their ways of thinking; having an affair and incomprehensible storylining. It is a quite daring film but not good for me. Friends of mine who watched this film also said to me that it was weird- not bad, but not good either.
I am really interested in language so I listened Italian carefully, but it's not my taste. The accent is so strong, so it sounds like arguing. I think French is much more elegant.
To sum up, This movie is rather disappointing. The higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment. However, this is just my opinion, so if you want something exotic and fresh, try it!