Review of To Rome with Love (2012) by Cinemaphile — 28 Jul 2016

Critics can't be trusted. Nor can the audience. That's the case with Woody Allen's much maligned To Rome With Love, which was panned by both. To Rome With Love is as good, if not better that his previous film, Midnight In Paris. To Rome With Love uses the same palate of themes, a romantic urban backdrop, characters in personal crisis, ill-advised infidelity and errors of comic proportions - all tied together with vaudevillian banter and musical motifs, meandering back and forth across the boundaries between reality and the fantastically absurd. Rarely does Allen cast his films poorly, and this film is no exception. Only Allen himself seems to be going through the motions, the rest of the cast is energetic and earnest. Reminiscent of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Allen explores Rome through the eyes of a nostalgic architect, a young married couple, a failed musical producer and an everyman from the streets of Rome.

Worth seeing if you can still find an afternoon matinee.