Bread and Chocolate
by Franco Brusati
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Actor: Anna Karina, Johnny Dorelli, Nino Manfredi, Paolo Turco, Ugo D'AlessioDirector: Franco Brusati
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-12
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Henstooth Video
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Movie Review: bread and chocolate
Summary: 2 Stars
i bought this for 2 reasons because NINO MANFREDI made a ITALIAN SONG that i liked very much and the other because my friend had seen it 35 years ago and he said he liked it .after watching it i found it so so maybe because i have trouble liking italian mvies even though i am ITALIAN.last to say if i was brought in ITALY i would have enjoyed the film better
Summary of Bread and Chocolate
About an italian immigrant working odd jobs in prosperous switzerland and trying desperately to fit in. Though his work becomes increasingly degrading he tenaciously refuses to give up and go home. Studio: Henstooth Video Release Date: 02/12/2002 Starring: Nino Manfredi Anna Karina Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Franco BrusatiNino Manfredi gives a wonderfully comic and sensitive performance as Nino, an Italian working as a waiter in Switzerland. Absent three years from his wife and children--for whom he is theoretically raising money to join him in Swiss prosperity--Nino is a little like David Bowie's dispirited alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth, an outsider too reinvented to return to his roots. Lonely, earthy, and clumsy among the polished locals, Nino has a series of Chaplinesque disasters that ultimately cost him his work permit and resident status. Instead of leaving the country, however, he sneaks back in and stays with a reclusive, beautiful woman (Anna Karina) with something of her own to hide. The adventures don't end there: like a modern Candide, Nino moves from one situation to the next, clinging to his optimism but also a strong suspicion he can never return home. Director Franco Brusati (Forget Venice) has made a rare comedy here that is both light and tough at the same time, with a hero whose clownish trappings don't so much soften his anxieties as make him more sympathetic for suffering them. --Tom Keogh
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