It is the 3rd film from Ferzan Ozpetek that I have seen and I must say that this looks like the most mature one and welcomes him to the narrow belt of Italian (even if he is half Turkish) "good directors".
The pain of a mourning almost completely reseted by the doubt of the presence of a husband's lover. The drama of discovering that his husband, Massimo, was a gay and had a man lover. Then starts to grow all the questions and insecurities into Antonia's mind, great and marvellously acted by Marherita Buy. Then she tries to discover his "real" past and second life getting in touch with a new cosmos of people: trans, gays, aids ill persons, that used to know very well his husband. His "second life" is well and intelligently represented in an apartment where all this people used to meet. This life, that initially Antonia rejects, because she is completely opposite minded, starts to interest her more and more up to become also part of her life. At last Antonia is told to be pregnant and decides not to say anything and to take finally a reflexion pause in her life.
The excellent dancing scene in the outdoor party accompanied by slow music which helps to screen all the characters and to see how far away they are from the life she has used to have is unforgettable.
Excellent example of very good Italian film which is really missed nowadays.
Rating: 7/10
The pain of a mourning almost completely reseted by the doubt of the presence of a husband's lover. The drama of discovering that his husband, Massimo, was a gay and had a man lover. Then starts to grow all the questions and insecurities into Antonia's mind, great and marvellously acted by Marherita Buy. Then she tries to discover his "real" past and second life getting in touch with a new cosmos of people: trans, gays, aids ill persons, that used to know very well his husband. His "second life" is well and intelligently represented in an apartment where all this people used to meet. This life, that initially Antonia rejects, because she is completely opposite minded, starts to interest her more and more up to become also part of her life. At last Antonia is told to be pregnant and decides not to say anything and to take finally a reflexion pause in her life.
The excellent dancing scene in the outdoor party accompanied by slow music which helps to screen all the characters and to see how far away they are from the life she has used to have is unforgettable.
Excellent example of very good Italian film which is really missed nowadays.
Rating: 7/10