Very attractive leading actress, well performed through out the whole movie. But what else we got here? A constantly changed scenes and locations inside or outside the hotel dining patio. The relationships between and among the participants are loosely explained and developed. She got a relationship with a man over 15 years, still periodically slept together without sex. She's the confidant of that man, who's running a wholesale food supply to the restaurants or cafes. But I really don't know he could leave his daily work, went to find her 5-star hotel inspector anytime he got in some trouble, 'cause she's constantly travel all over the place, not just Italy. Then her two nieces mother was somewhat an absent-minded woman, a clumsy mother and a wife. She sometimes visited them and helped taking care of the kids, even gave a hand in their kitchen, 'cause the kids' mother was so clumsy even doing food preparation.
There were many beautiful scenes and scenaries as she traveled anonymously to inspect those 5-star hotels. A lonely traveling woman, classy and attractive, but other than that, what else we got? Almost nothing, the only thing that attracted me to continue watching is the leading lady, her subtle charm besides her loneliness and toughness to keep moving forward and around. That's all I can say here. (This is what the 3.5/5 part I'm talking about here)
But after she met a Bristish feminist woman, the whole movie suddenly turned into a very deep and quite philosophic profound one, even it's a bit short and late, but it actually made the former quite blended part become very meaningful to seamlessly evolve into a great movie.