Puccini for Beginners
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- Synopsis
- A woman who loves opera finds herself playing a romantic version of musical chairs in this independent comedy from writer and director Maria Maggenti. Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser) is a writer who has been involved with Samantha (Julianne Nicholson) for ......
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- Director(s)
- Maria Maggenti
- Distributor(s)
- Strand
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 82 min.
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The Hollywood Reporter | Duane ByrgeAdd Critic to Favorites
Brainy and balmy.Read the full review
The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites
It all looks easy when it's carried off this smoothly. But as any number of stilted duds can attest, applying a Philip Barry or Woody Allen sensibility to 21st-century New Yorkers in their 30s is as delicate a craft as diamond cutting.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites
The plot, which spins around Allegra's lovers having just been an item, is awkward bedroom farce, but the tone is Woody Allen-meets-"The L Word," with a patina of literary cuteness that now seems like the sound of a vanished Manhattan.Read the full review
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