The beautiful, thoughtful 1987 Italian drama film The Gold Rimmed Glasses [Gli occhiali d’oro] stars Philippe Noiret and Rupert Everett as an ageing gay doctor and a Jewish student who suffer persecution in Fascist Italy. […]
The 2009 gay-themed Italian romantic drama film David’s Birthday [Il Compleanno] stars Alessandro Gassmann, Maria de Medeiros, Massimo Poggio and Thyago Alves as free-spirited birthday boy David. Director Marco Filiberti’s 2009 gay-themed Italian romantic drama film David’s […]
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 […]
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