★★ No, nothing to do with that peak of the neorealist melodrama of the same title that led poor Ingrid Bergman to despair and degradation for love under the gaze of Roberto Rossellini. What yesterday was a fence, today is a resort/spiritual retreat for people with a lot of tarasque in hand in which a sad but sexy but active but quasi-promiscuous Dutch lady (Elise Schaap, widely visible) rediscovers the meaning of life between dreamy landscapes and the simple metaphor of the Mediterranean volcano. One has been wondering for a long time how these films are made in the manner of cold cuts, full of glamor and commonplaces (and like the good canteen, fat). “Let’s do one like Eat, Pray, Love,” someone said.
