Film critics in Italy have taken a much harder line toward the globetrotting sumptuousness of Eat Pray Love than their American counterparts did, dismissing the film as Hollywood ethno-porn of the worst kind. “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’,” Curzio Maltese wrote in La Repubblica , echoed later by the Torino daily La Stampa : “That’s the way they like us in the United States, dark, boisterous, uninhibited; we’ve always known that, but this time the effect is beyond the limits.” Nobody tell them about Jersey Shore , cool? [ NYT ]
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That’s Not Amore: Italian Critics Trash Eat Pray Love
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