This screwball comedy for the 21st Century follows Allegra, an opera-loving
lesbian novelist on the rebound, as she unknowingly hooks up with both a
(male) philosophy professor and his soon-to-be-ex girlfriend. Filmed around
Manhattan on digital video in only 18 days, this sophomore effort from the
director of The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
was a huge hit at Sundance. Maggenti's intellectual bedroom farce is widely
compared to Woody Allen at his witty best. With its Greek choruses of sushi
chefs and Allegra's ex-lovers, hot polysemous sex scenes, and farcical plot
twists, Puccini for Beginners "may be the best lesbian
romantic comedy ever made." (Eric Lurio, Greenwich Village Gazette)
35mm.
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2007, color, 1 hour 22 minutes, USA