Four compressed versions of Allen's other movies

Rating: 1/10 (30 May 2017)

The four unrelated plots that compose this mess of a movie focus on classic Allen's themes he tackled better many times before.
The plot featuring Benigni is a compressed version of "Celebrity", the Allen movie about the absurdity of contemporary fame-worshipping. Benigni is a most overrated actor/director with a very limited range. His scenes are painful to watch.
The story featuring Eisenberg, Gerwig and Page is the standard Allen's fodder of a young man falling for a neurotic/pretentious/unreliable female, in the past the classic Keaton's role. In "Anything Else" Christina Ricci played the Page role. This story is also annoying and the dialogues bad and repetitive. Comments fly around about how sexy and irresistible the Page character is supposed to be, even if she does not strike me as such...
A third story features a young Italian couple acting as if they lived in the 50s. They both are ludicrous but manage to cuckold each other given the first chance. The "wise" hooker played by Cruz is straight out of "Deconstructing Harry".
The fourth plot was for me the most unbearable, featuring Allen himself at his most Allenish. Stammering, afraid of death and involved in a stupid plan (see "Small Time Crooks" and many others), Allen manages to concurrently insult Italian families and operas.
Even the soundtrack is atrocious, with some corny Italian tunes from the 50s. The only saving grace is the photography. However, the real Rome is a mess of ugly buildings and traffic, not the golden collection of monuments showed in the movie
Really an awful mess that should be voted in the negative.... even without mentioning the overbearing product-placement.