Ferzan Özpetek’s 2014 stylish Italian romantic comedy drama film Fasten Your Seatbelts [Allacciate Le Cinture] stars Kasia Smutniak and Francesco Arca as beautiful people with opposing personalities, who try not to fall in love. Co-writer/ […]
Ferzan Özpetek picks wildly unpromising material for his 2008 Italian drama film A Perfect Day [Un Giorno Perfetto] and comes up with a dark and depressing movie, in which a violent jealous bodyguard refuses to […]
Ferzan Özpetek’s bold but baffling 2017 mystery thriller Naples in Veils [Napoli Velata] centres on Adriana (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), a Naples medical examiner seduced by a handsome younger man, who turns up dead next day. Turkish-Italian […]
Ferzan Özpetek’s 2012 Italian comedy fantasy drama film A Magnificent Haunting [Magnifica presenza] is civilised but rather tiresome and none too entertaining, with an irritating whimsical comedic spin covering some darker and deeper thoughts. Director […]
Director Ferzan Ozpetek’s bracing, challenging 2007 Italian-Turkish drama film Saturn in Opposition [Saturno Contro] focuses sharply on a group of very close friends living in Rome who have to cope with the sudden death of […]
Ferzan Özpetek’s 2003 Italian movie Facing Windows [La finestra di fronte] is a gleaming polished gem. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Nigro star as an unhappy married couple who befriend an elderly amnesiac man (Massimo Girotti), […]
Ferzan Özpetek’s 2019 Italian film The Goddess of Fortune [Lа Dеа Fоrtunа] is highly emotional rollercoaster ride, quite the full-on tearjerker. A married gay couple are in trouble after a long-time friend asks them to […]