Pane e tulipani (2000)

English title: Bread and Tulips.
Synopsis: An Italian housewife, during a vacation trip with her family, is forgotten at a mall during a stop. She decides not to wait for them to come and fetch her, and, instead, to go home by herself, but she ends up doing something else.
Appraisal: Most of the time, this is an extremely boring film, that succumbs to the ineptitude of its writers. The instant when one of the characters introduces herself by saying 'Grazia Reginelli, aesthetician and masseuse!" was when I abandoned all hopes in it. Although the level of the acting is fairly good, and the score is intelligently used, nothing can save this film. The film wisely panders to the unhappily married women in the audience, and as a result it has enjoyed a huge -- considering that it did not rely on a big publicity campaign, but rather on word-of-mouth -- commercial success, especially in Brazil, prompting us to draw the conclusion that there are a lot of unhappily married -- and I should include here the ones who once were in this category -- women in the world, and more so in Brazil.
Rating: 28