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Congratulations to director Paul Weiland for taking a stupid premise and creating a truly romantic look at marriage. Mercedes Ruehl is dying of a weak heart, and her husband, Jean Reno, hopes to keep his promise to bury her in their tiny Italian village, despite a lack of room in the cemetery. While he is trying to keep his friends and neighbors out of the local bone yard, she is quietly seeking candidates for his next wife. Many movies treat marriage as a death sentence. For Roseanna looks past daily bickering to the enduring love and warm companionship of well-matched lovers. Clearly defined characters, a disarming dénouement, and passionate performances transform the silly plot into a playful valentine. --Rochelle O'Gorman
It is very enjoyable to see Jean Reno playing the helpless, stressed out guy who deeply loves his wife and tries very hard to fulfill all her desires especially her last one...
On the same time it is refreshing to see a married man, on the big screen, that after years of marriage has passion for his wife, is deeply in love with her, and remains loyal,despite the temptations that are lurking around.
The opening scene of the movie sets the mood for what will follow: The funeral of an acrobat while circus artists perform at the cemetry. A really GREAT inspiration from the director. All this poetic introduction is embraced with a beatyful melancholic song titled "Luna Rosa".
This movie has also great laughs particullary when the people that know Jean Reno's desire scare him with very innovative ways.
The location where the movie was shot is excellent, a small village somewhere in Italy, and the end is incredibly impredictable.
Finally it is great they decided to change the title. Interestingly when it was played in Greece the title was "Anything for Roseanne".
Watch this movie with the one you love, either for many years, or for a short time. You will really enjoy it.
Ditto Natalie!
Same thing: watched it on VHS ages ago (1999?) and have been looking for it ever since. I think the title was actually "Roseanna's Grave" once. Funny how they (may have) changed the title to a more positive one.
The movie is beatiful - not a tinge of cheesiness despite the storyline. Watch it. The thing I loved the most is that the movie was done in English. Funny how Jean Reno and the rest of the actors had to squezze all of that passion into the confines of a foreign language! The part that was left over went straight into body language. That was beautiful. Again, highly recommended.
A movie to warm your heart - and to make you laugh, as well!
I was hunting for this movie for a long time. I am a big fan of Jean Reno and had seen the movie previously on VHS, but forgot the title and therefore had some problems tracking it down on DVD. All this was not in vain - the movie was as wonderful and sweet as I remembered it. It's very difficult to define its genre - it's a cocktail of comedy and drama, mixed together almost equally. The story seems to be a bit macabre from the first glance - Marcello (Jean Reno), the owner of a small restaurant in a sleepy little town somewhere in Italy, has promised his dying wife Roseanna (Mercedes Ruehl) that he will bury her in the old town cemetery upon her death, so she could be together with their only little daughter, who died a long time ago. Unfortunately, there are only very few plots left in the old cemetery and it can not be expanded, because the owner of the adjacent land is refusing to sell a parcel of it to accommodate the extension (mostly out of spite to Marcello, which makes negotiations even more difficult). And the new cemetery will be far away, on a hill above the town. But Marcello loves his wife very much and he's made her a promise - and so he races against time, trying to keep the town's inhabitants alive - by any means, from directing a busy Sunday traffic near the church (so nobody got hurt) to giving his blood to an old man dying at the hospital, in the vain hope this will prolong his life. His life is dedicated to this goal - but as life always has its twists and turns- not everything goes smoothly for Marcello, though in the end he will get what he wants - and more. The cast is very good, Jean Reno and Mercedes Ruehl are very natural and endearing in their roles of a loving husband and wife, who, in all the tragedy that has befallen them, still had not forgotten how to live and love and enjoy the life, whenever they can, while it lasts. I liked the supporting actors - Polly Walker in the role of Cecilia, Roseanna's independent, strong-willed sister, who is falling in love with Antonio (Mark Frankel), the nephew of Marcello's worst enemy, even as Roseanna is trying to do some matchmaking for her and Marcello, for that time when she'll be gone. Sadly, I believe this was the last movie for Mark Frankel, who did in a car accident shortly after the movie was released.
The rest of the cast even in the smallest roles are adding very much to the very romantic and very Italian atmosphere of the movie. They all even speak with the accent (which might be uncomfortable for some viewers, though I personally thought it's a nice touch!).
The DVD extra features are very few - a theatrical trailer, plus New Line promotional trailers and a DVD-ROM with the links to the New Line promotions.
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