Pane e tulipani is a great film that everybody should wacth, but I didn't understand what does the title in common with the plot.
"Tulips" probably comes from the scene where Rosalba leaves Fernando a goodbye note with tulip flowers.
And "Bread"... I don't have a clue. Could somebody explain me please?
an easy mataphor is "Bread and Roses", in which bread stands for living a life and roses stand for love?
just a thought.
Nirvana got it absolutely right, but I supsect it's also an homage to Bread, Love and dreams (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046159/) and Frisky http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047327/
Both had their tiles in italian "Pane amore e..." which means "Bread, love and..."
i always assumed tulips were meant to represent her 'poetic' life with fernando, whereas bread represented her more 'prosaic' former life.
and i vaguely remember rosalba mentioning a song called "pane e tulipani" to her florist employer, and singing it.
Not only that, but when she first started staying with Fernando, she would get up in the morning, and he would have left her breakfast, which always included a loaf of bread....
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And not only that, be she notices that Fernando's p's and t's are very exaggerated. This is important to her because she had done a course in graphology. 'Pane' starts with P, and 'tulipani' starts with T.
share"Le anime come i corpi possono morire di fame: dateci pane, ma dateci anche rose." This might be a line in the film, but at the very least it is a relevant Italian proverb. It means, "Souls, like bodies, can die of hunger: give them bread, but give them roses also." This adage may be a starting point for interpreting the film's title, but I like very much the other suggestions posted here: Rosalba's breakfast of bread every morning certainly ties into this theme. Nice symbolism!
shareI just assumed that the bread represented Fernando because he left her bread everymorning. And tulips were Rosalba because she worked in a flower shop and tulips are what she left for Fernando after she left.
shareIl titolo del film deriva dal fatto che ogni mattina Fernando lascia a Rosalba la colazione (tra cui emerge in primo piano un'abbondante fetta di pane) e lei ogni sera gli porta un mazzo di fiori dal negozio, e gli ultimi che porta prima di tornare a Pescara sono proprio tulipani.
this from wikipedia
he brings her bread and she brings him tulips
I agree with you! To me she was the tulips and he was the bread.
shareI'm sorry, but I think the bread is from the part when she is in the car with a stranger that tells her about a boyfrined and the differnt breads he used to make, therefore the bread represents the wild life that other woman had and that Rosalba longs for.
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If you had been a contemporary Italian, you would have been familiar with the very popular "Bread and Chocolate" (1974) and "Bread and Roses" (2000) and so would have had a familiarity with the "Bread and..." motif. Familiarity with common knowledge apparently fades fast.
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