Incantato (****)

Romatic drama about a 35 year old man, Nelo, whose father sends him to Bologna to find a wife. The father, a pilandering tailor to the pope and his cardinals, depends on Nelo to carry on the family name and business. Nelo moves into a respectable men's boarding house and teaches literature at a local college. Although he is unsure of himself about the opposite sex, he soon falls in love with a woman who has been blinded in an accident. She uses Nelo, attempting to make her old boyfriend jealous, and generally treats Nelo poorly. Nevertheless, he is completely in love with her. The movie is heavily nostalgic and romantic, with marvelous scenes of Italian architecture. It beautifully captures life as one would imagine it in Italy in 1920. It could easily be a sappy film, but it's not. Instead, it's sweet, elegant and bittersweet. Most importantly, it reminds us not only that love is blind, but that it's so terribly difficult to find.
(Note: the original title of this movie is Il Cuore Altrove.)