slow film regina viarum queen of the roads i spotted this image and caption in our rome article today and thought that the reminds me of the long opening tracking shot in caro diario i am probably quite wrong but if the movie does begin on the via appia i would think it worth mentioning come to that anyone who has seen the movie recently or has the dvd might write something on that opening sequence it seemed to me to define the tone of the film rather beautifully yes this is going to be a road movie but a slow slow movement road movie