52 Films by Women Vol 10. 9. THREE GOODBYES (Tre Ciotole) (Director: Isabel Coixet)
Pictured : Marta ( Alba Rohrwacher , right) shares a bed with a cut-out of Korean pop star, Jirko ( Sungku Jung , left). To borrow from The Purple Rose of Cairo , he's two-dimensional, but you can't have everything. A scene from director Isabel Coixet 's Italian film, ' Three Goodbyes ' (Italian title ' Tre Ciotole '), adapted from Michela Murgia 's short stories by Coixet and Enrico Audenino . Still courtesy of Vision Distribution (Italy) The title Tre Ciotole , an Italian film from Spanish director Isabel Coixet, translates into English as ‘three bowls.’ It has been re-named Three Goodbyes for the wider international market, lest it be mistaken for a sports movie. A bowl needs an arresting prefix to be included in a film title, for example, The Golden Bowl , director James Ivory’s 2000 adaptation of Henry James’ novel. Bowls are utilitarian, glazed, rarely ornate, but indispensable for the consumption of soup. You associate three bowls with a fa...