Mezzogiorno...rises about the melodrama with a soulful grace that recalls Monica Vitti in her Antonioni films.
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07/30/04
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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
Ozpetek ends up with a lot of balls in the air, and he has to do some scrambling to keep up. He pulls it off, but it feels like he's making this harder than it needs to be.
07/23/04
As the relationship progresses between Giovanna and Davide, Facing Windows becomes refined with deeper truths.
07/23/04
The mysteries begin to clear up and the movie goes to hell.
07/23/04
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07/23/04
Top CriticThanks to fine performances and a grounded script, the pieces of this intriguing little puzzle all manage to fit.
07/23/04
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 CriticIt's a corny and utterly implausible story in many ways -- but, like The Notebook, it's an implausible romance that connects with us because of the lush style and the power of the performances.
07/22/04
Top CriticOzpetek is an enriching director. More than a presentation of its contents, every scene seems also to be a distillation of the matters that led to it.
07/21/04
Top CriticTerrific performance by Mezzogiorno grounds a lovely, if flawed, film.
07/16/04
The 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
This glossy veneer of artificiality, handled masterfully in the films of Douglas Sirk, Todd Haynes and Pedro Almodovar, doesn't feel classic here so much as cheesy.
07/16/04
Top CriticIt's Italian, it's actually quite mesmerizing in the manner of '50s psychological melodrama held together by incredible coincidences, everyone in it is splendidly attractive, and when you get out, you will be thinking: 'I have to get a pie soon.'
07/16/04
Top CriticThe follow your bliss message is groan-worthy.
07/13/04
The parts are never integrated into a smoothly satisfying whole...as such it doesn't quite delight the cinematic palate.
07/10/04
It's ultimately as soft and hollow as fresh-baked Italian bread.
07/09/04
Top CriticThis is a beautifully written, grown-up story about choices, regrets and the passage of time.
07/09/04
Thanks to a soulful performance by Giovanna Mezzogiorno, it's also eminently watchable, even as we resist its machinations.
07/09/04
Top CriticFluidly directed, superbly acted, boasting a story that wraps itself snugly around big emotional issues but stops just short of sentimentality.
07/09/04
Nicely captures the changing emotions of a woman who is married to a boor.
07/08/04
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