To Rome With Love is A Roman Holiday ****

Rating: 10/10 (7 July 2013)

As far as I'm concerned, this was one of Woody Allen's best pictures in years.
It deals with Romans and Americans caught up in a variety of situations in the eternal city.
Not only is their hilarity but we can actually make sense out of how these people get away from these confronting situations to lead a normal life.
From the plain couple who run into a prostitute, a movie actor and burglar, these situations shall only reinforce their love. To the hilarity of the Allen character discovering that his daughter's future father-in-law sings opera beautifully provided that he's in a shower and how that is handled is an utter joy to watch. How the young man discovers love with his girlfriend's best friend is amazing and how he reconciles with his girlfriend is pure Hollywood gold.
Alec Baldwin serves as a mentor to Jesse Eisenberg. Judy Davis, who plays Allen's psychiatrist wife looks more and more like the late Geraldine Page. If ever they make Page's biography, she should definitely have the lead role.
Roberto Benigni is as clever as ever as the common man whose opinions are suddenly valued. When his fleeting fame ends, he longs for it.
This is a real crowd pleaser of a film.