Romans will see the new Woody Allen movie Nero Fiddled before we Americans will – seems fair since it was made Rome. It will arrive in Italian movie theaters on April 20, a full two months before the US premier on June 22.
The movie, tells four unrelated stories with Woody Allen and Judy Davis playing parents who travel to Rome to meet their daughter’s fiance in one of them. In another, Roberto Benigni gets mistaken for a movie star and chased by the paparazzi through Rome’s narrow streets (there were lots of reports of seeing him running around the Campo de Fiori area when I was in Rome last summer). Half of the cast members are Italian actors.
The third story has Alec Baldwin, an architect from California, who is visiting Rome with some friends, and the fourth and last story will revolve around Alessandro Tiberi and Alessandra Mastronardi, a young Italian couple that get lost visiting their relatives in Rome.
Allen says “It’s not as romantic (as Midnight in Paris). It’s more an out-and-out comedy. I don’t know Rome as well as I know Paris.”
Even though I have no idea what he’s talking about – romance can barely contain itself in Rome – I just hope it’s funny and that the Italian actors like Riccardo Scamarcio get a chance to shine.
Here’s a youtube video of the cast and crew shooting the Begnini scene – Andate via! Chiamo la polizia!
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