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His Secret Life (2002)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:25
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Well-acted soap opera.
Theatrical Release:Sep 20, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: When Antonia (Margherita Buy) loses her husband Massimo in a terrifying car accident, she is devastated. Taking care of necessary business after his death, she runs across a painting, a gift to her... When Antonia (Margherita Buy) loses her husband Massimo in a terrifying car accident, she is devastated. Taking care of necessary business after his death, she runs across a painting, a gift to her husband with a note attached indicating that Antonia's partner of 15 years had been indiscreet for seven of them. She tracks down his lover and finds that Massimo has been involved in a homosexual affair with a man named Michele (Stefano Accorsi). She also finds in Michele's home an adopted family of misfits who all knew and loved her deceased husband. As Antonia attempts to understand her husband's secret, she becomes accepted into this commune and also begins to have some of her own loving admirers, including Michele. Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek (STEAM: THE TURKISH BATH) directs this touching film that places caring and understanding before judgement or anger. [More]
Starring: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Erika Blanc, Serra Yilmaz
Starring: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Erika Blanc, Serra Yilmaz, Andrea Renzi, Lucrezia Valia, Koray Candemir
Director: Ferzan Özpetek
Director: Ferzan Özpetek
Screenwriter: Ferzan Özpetek
Producer: Gianni Romoli, Tilde Corsi
Studio: Strand Releasing
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Reviews for His Secret Life
Ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie.
With all the sympathy, empathy and pity fogging up the screen...His Secret Life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles.
Spreads itself too thin, leaving these actors, as well as the members of the commune, short of profound characterizations
At times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated (depending upon where you live), Ignorant Fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two.
The two leads give wonderful performances and when they try to connect with each other it's as awkward and desperate as you would expect, also real and touching.
Ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled.
This is a thoughtful, affecting film, filled with absorbing characters.
Pure of intention and passably diverting, His Secret Life is light, innocuous and unremarkable.
The film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original, but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters.
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