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Critics fume at Julia's Rome
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September 19, 2010, Sunday
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ITALIAN newspapers have greeted Julia Roberts' latest film "Eat Pray Love" with scorn, scoffing at its romantic vision of an American woman's voyage of self-discovery.
"The only thing missing in Julia's Rome is the mandolin," La Repubblica said yesterday.
"Eat Pray Love," based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best-seller about a globe-trotting quest for meaning after divorce, follows Roberts' character Liz to Italy, India and Indonesia.
The section in Italy, where Liz savors gelato, pizza and the Latin way of life, left critics fuming.
"It rains spaghetti, the Italians are always gesticulating and following foreign girls shouting vulgarities but then getting engaged to a nice housewife to please their domineering mothers, all this under the sign of 'dolce far niente'," La Repubblica critic Curzio Maltese wrote. The Italian phrase means "the sweetness of doing nothing."
Turin's La Stampa regretted that Italian actors in the cast were drawing on images from the 1950s.
"The only thing missing in Julia's Rome is the mandolin," La Repubblica said yesterday.
"Eat Pray Love," based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best-seller about a globe-trotting quest for meaning after divorce, follows Roberts' character Liz to Italy, India and Indonesia.
The section in Italy, where Liz savors gelato, pizza and the Latin way of life, left critics fuming.
"It rains spaghetti, the Italians are always gesticulating and following foreign girls shouting vulgarities but then getting engaged to a nice housewife to please their domineering mothers, all this under the sign of 'dolce far niente'," La Repubblica critic Curzio Maltese wrote. The Italian phrase means "the sweetness of doing nothing."
Turin's La Stampa regretted that Italian actors in the cast were drawing on images from the 1950s.
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