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Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle

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A Dutch farmer decides to grow tulips in Italy.

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Scott Tobias Variety 10/26/2017
The primary color palette and a light, crowd-pleasing tone wins "Tulipani" some initial good will, but as the story lurches from random wackiness to dark melodrama, Van Diem quickly loses his grip. Go to Full Review
Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter 09/17/2017
A tone-deaf disappointment from writer-director Mike van Diem. Go to Full Review
Chris Knight National Post 09/10/2018
4/5
Tulipani is a shaggy-dog story that rewards those who hang onto its twisty narrative. Not that it's hard to pay attention, give the winsome characters and breezy plot. Go to Full Review
Jim Slotek Original Cin 09/06/2018
B-minus
Believable or subtle, Tulipani is not. But even with its narrative contortions, it is good-hearted and unembarrassed to wield ridiculousness (an explosive fart joke), clichés and anything else it can muster to win over an audience Go to Full Review
Ken Eisner Georgia Straight 09/05/2018
Aggressively crowd-pleasing... Entertaining enough to encourage the suspension of critical faculties for just about 90 minutes. Go to Full Review
Mallory Andrews Cinema Scope 09/25/2017
Tulipani, Love etc. mistakes whimsicality for significance. Go to Full Review
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07/24/2020 Epic! The negative critics properly screwed up with their ratings See more 05/03/2020 Was even better then I've expected. Funny, beautiful, romantic. And nice tulips beat bad mafia 🌷 See more 06/21/2019 The story is amusing and crowd-pleasing. The storyline was a little thin in places, but in the end, it entertained and amused, was quirky and light-hearted. I have no regrets about spending time watching this movie to the end but I won't go to see it a second time. See more john s @hipCRANK 09/26/2018 DUTCH TREAT To tell a tall tale, the Italians speak loudly, with much exaggeration, and accompany themselves eagerly with fast moving hands. Subtlety is not on the menu. A rather wild and wooly story, "Tulipani" is told from several points in time, which proves a tad confusing at first, but soon enough, once the audience is priorly strapped in, congeals into a starchy, pasta water whole. We start in Canada, travel back to Holland, but everything really happens in a small Italian town. Locales and languages shift on a slippery dime, which adds to the fun craziness of this engrossing fairy tale of true romance. Gauke, a stoic, heroic Dutch man's man winds up bringing much more than just tulips to a folksy village in desperate need of saving. The loopy plot unfolds from the very colourful memory of the local tavern owner, which takes it into a foggy, grey area. Who knows how things actually went down, but it sure is fun when guided by an old fashioned, wide-eyed story teller. Over the top? Entertaining? Whimsical? Cliched? Silly? Big-hearted? Unbelievable? You betcha. - hipCRANK See more 09/16/2018 I adored this movie! Quirky, fun and different. Wish there were more movies out there like this one! See more julia p 06/30/2018 Loved by all the audiences at the Edinburgh International Film Festival who believe it should have wider audience in UK. Amusing, and fast paced tale, wonderful scenery, and well acted. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis A Dutch farmer decides to grow tulips in Italy.
Director
Mike van Diem
Screenwriter
Mike van Diem, Peter van Wijk
Production Co
FATT Productions
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English