I enthusiastically recommend this Italian film, Pane e Tulipani or for the English speaking crowd, Bread and Tulips.  It's a film that provides entertainment in its comedy and in its reflection on the personal choices we all make between the meaningful 'shoulds' and 'wants' in our lives. 

    I found some wonderful plot gimmicks in the story line; the detective, the noose, the mistress, etc.  Most of all I was impressed with Licia Maglietta's portrayal of Rosalba's tentative decisions.  It was a pleasure to watch a middle aged successful and attractive actress at work in a part that Hollywood would have cast with an anorexic dippy 20-something.

When the film draws to its conclusion and you're sitting there thinking about it, a question pops up. Given some happy accident of fate, could I turn being lost into a vacation?

    I saw this at a theater with subtitles.