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08/20/04
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Facing Windows (2003)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:42
Rotten:24
Average Rating:6.2/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 18, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $373,955
Synopsis: FACING WINDOWS is a haunting, romantic story of love, history, memory, and politics from director Ferzan Ozpetek, the Instanbul-born Italian transplant whose gay-themed films STEAM: THE TURKISH... [More]
Starring: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova
Director: Ferzan Özpetek
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Reviews for Facing Windows
Probably best skipped -- unless you have a penchant for shallow, 'comfortable' foreign films that offer obvious messages and never attempt to challenge the viewer.
06/14/04
Top CriticThis is a beautifully written, grown-up story about choices, regrets and the passage of time.
07/09/04
While story faults glare, the draw that satisfies is Mezzogiorno's performance, one that speaks of a deeply internal conviction in the woman she's portraying.
07/05/04
Facing Windows is a top-notch Italian drama about finding your passion and devoting yourself to it with as much energy and enthusiasm as you can muster.
06/18/04
Sus mayores logros quizás están en la manipulación de los dos tiempos en que se narra la película (...)
02/07/05
Beautiful to look at and acted with full and tempestuous conviction, it still seems to be taking place in an apartment far across the way.
06/25/04
Top CriticIt's a sweet story, but there's a melancholy feel to this film that sticks with you after you leave the theatre.
06/18/04
[It] gives off a lot of pleasure: in the performances, the texture, the moment-by-moment changes in emotional temperature.
10/30/04
Mezzogiorno...rises about the melodrama with a soulful grace that recalls Monica Vitti in her Antonioni films.
07/30/04
A quiet, lovely, thoughtful Italian movie.
07/08/04
Top CriticThe Italians do a sort of romantic film best, but they start with a big edge: Italy. In Facing Windows, they have Rome and the warm colors and the food, and a very good cast led by immensely appealing Giovanna Mezzogiorno.
07/16/04
Structurally, it's ambitious, but emotionally the movie never quite connects.
06/17/04
Blends history and mystery into an entertaining, if slight, romance.
06/18/04
The film's puzzlelike structure is a help; Simone's secret may not be hard to guess, but watching him work it out with the aid of Giovanna and Lorenzo consistently holds our interest.
07/22/04
Top CriticOzpetek's "fairy tale" hopes to get by on the good looks of its actors alone.
05/28/04
Fluidly directed, superbly acted, boasting a story that wraps itself snugly around big emotional issues but stops just short of sentimentality.
07/09/04
Top CriticThis too-sentimental drama does feature a sterling performance by Giovanna Mezzogiorno as a love-struck housewife dissatisfied with her lot, thus providing the only watchable element of an otherwise disappointing movie.
06/29/04
Top CriticThe “follow your bliss” message is groan-worthy.
07/13/04
The mysteries begin to clear up and the movie goes to hell.
07/23/04
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