Facing Windows
by Ferzan Ozpetek
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Actor: Filippo Nigro, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Serra YilmazDirector: Ferzan Ozpetek
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Facing Windows
DVD Review: Um what?
Summary: 2 Stars
I really wanted to like this film but honestly it was just boring. There was nothing too exciting about it, the elderly man's character is the only one that is interesting. The women is bland, the film doesn't give you a reason to care about her. The end of the film my thought was um what?DVD Review: NOT YOUR TYPICAL NONSCENSE KIND OF MOVIE.
Summary: 5 Stars
NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAY BE GOING THROUGH IN LIFE, THIS MOVIE GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. FROM SOMETHING NOT BEING GIVEN IN A RELATIONSHIP, GIVE IT BE BY YOU OR THE OTHER... OR EVEN SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT DOING BUT JUST TOO AFRAID TO, THIS MOVIE REALLY MAKES YOU THINK AND/OR MOTIVATES YOU TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SITUATION.DVD Review: Great Italian cinema.
Summary: 5 Stars
Not wanting to repeat many of the comments of previous reviewers, I just want to say that this is the most satisfying foreign film that I've seen in many years. I'm sure that I will watch this DVD many times more!DVD Review: Worth watching despite trouble committing to one theme or another
Summary: 3 Stars
'Facing Windows' had a lot of promise and, in general, is a pleasant enough viewing. But the early reviewer who I think has it spot-on is the one who says "Turkish-born director Ferzan Ozpetek...often loses his way." Exactly. That encapsulates the issue. Some here have praised this film's "multiple levels," but I think instead it's a lack of focus - it is, by turn, a portrait of a marriage, a detective story, and a story of new love. I don't see a dexterous intermingling of these threads; instead, it appears Ozpetek has trouble committing to one theme or another.
That said, I do recommend seeing the film. The beautiful Giovanna Mezzogiorno is a talented actress. And the core tale involving mystery man 'Simone' - of his heroic actions towards the end of WWII and his love that dare not speak its name - is the film's most intriguing and well executed thread.
DVD Review: un buen cine italiano
Summary: 5 Stars
una buena pelicula italiana, el cine italiano esta mejorando.
recomendada para los que les gusta el cine italiano.
a good movie, something different. A+
Description of Facing Windows
A young working-class wife and mother unlocks a freedom within her heart that she never expected. Don't miss this critically-acclaimed, award-winning romance.The beautiful and wonderfully named Giovanna Mezzogiorno joins the list of soulful Italian actresses with Facing Windows, a pleasant cinematic fancy. Her character is a married Mom in an ordinary apartment, whose life is affected by two things: her fascination with the handsome man who lives across the courtyard, and the sudden arrival in her home of an elderly amnesiac (played by the late Massimo Girotti)--a well-dressed man found walking on the street, dazed and lost. Turkish-born director Ferzan Ozpetek (Steam: The Turkish Bath) makes this simultaneously a slice of life and a vaguely fantastical situation. It probably all works out a little too neatly, but the unhurried pace and deep sympathy Ozpetek displays toward his main characters is refreshing. And when in doubt, he points the camera at the face of La Mezzogiorno, which solves all problems. --Robert Horton
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