Facing Windows (2003) ( La Finestra di fronte )

Facing Windows (2003) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$25.99

Original Title: La Finestra di fronte
Screened, competed or awarded at:
David Donatello Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Teaser(s)
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )
Turkey ( Africa, Middle East )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ferzan Ozpetek

Written By:
Ferzan Ozpetek
Gianni Romoli

Actors:
Giovanna Mezzogiorno ..... Giovanna
Massimo Girotti ..... Simone/Davide Veroli
Raoul Bova ..... Lorenzo
Filippo Nigro ..... Filippo
Serra Yilmaz ..... Eminè
Maria Grazia Bon ..... Sara
Massimo Poggio ..... Young Davide
Ivan Bacchi ..... Simone
Chiara Andreis
Veronica Bruni ..... 2ª Tintora
Olimpia Carlisi ..... Donna negozio
Ohame-Brancy Chibuzo ..... Alessio
Carlo Daniele ..... Marco
Rosaria De Cicco ..... Barista
Luciana De Falco ..... Marilena
Barbara Folchitto
Francesca Gamba
Benedetta Gargari ..... Martina
Enrico Grassi ..... Vittorio
Serena Habtom Mehari ..... Microbo
Flavio Insinna ..... Uomo forno
Elisabeth Kaza ..... Padrona negozio
Patrizia Loreti ..... 1ª Tintora
Francesco Martino
Caterina Quaranta
Maurizio Romoli ..... La spia
Giorgio Sgobbi ..... Barman
Thierno Thiam
Billo Thiernothian ..... Giambo
Claudia Verdat
Giovanni Verdesca

Synopsis:

Young married couple Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and Filippo (Filippo Nigro) have been married long enough to have become almost completely jaded by their lots in life, with most of their individual aspirations having been set aside some time ago. As their marriage begins to fall apart, the two encounter a strange old man (Massimo Girotti) who calls himself Simone since he can't seem to recall his real name or much about his past history. Filippo brings the man home to stay with them, which initially irritates Giovanna. Over time, she gradually befriends the confused old man and eventually notices a tattoo on his arm indicative of his being a WWII Holocaust survivor. Taking 'Simone' to an old Roman ghetto, she helps him remember his name (Davide) and his time spent in that very ghetto -- which includes recalling the very painful memory of his lover Simone's capture and murder at the hands of the Nazis. Meanwhile, Giovanna has been spending her free time impulsively peeping across the street at her attractive neighbor Lorenzo (Raoul Bova) -- who in turn has been spying on her. Giovanna is thus forced to decide between Filippo and Lorenzo, as well as possibly realizing a long dormant professional dream that her new friend Davide may be able to help her undertake.

This lush, surreally flavored immersion in voyeurism and romantic dreams muses on many of the same themes as Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and "Vertigo," but from a more conventional emotional perspective. This seductive Italian film uses the image of beautiful strangers secretly and obsessively studying each other through opposite windows, to reflect on two related romantic syndromes, the "grass is always greener" and the "absence makes the heart grow fonder" quandaries. Instead of encasing the characters in a Hitchcockian murder mystery, the film compares the fantasies of possible lovers (Giovanna Messogiorno and Raoul Bova) to the romantic, six-decade-old memories of a mysterious octogenerian (Massimo Girotti), whose story gradually comes to focus. The movie swept the Italian equivalent of the Oscars in 2003.

Giovanna is a bookkeeper in a company which packs chickens. She is married to a man who has a precarious job. First she starts being curious about a young man who lives in the block opposite hers, and then she falls in love with him. The relationship between the two becomes much stronger when she starts to find out more about him from an old man who bursts into their lives. The old man, obsessed with the memories of some things that happened n the long past autumn of 1943, has lost his memory and finds refuge in Giovanna.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 06 August, 2012.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

August (2011) (Blu-Ray)	Arne Dahl: Many Waters (2011) (Blu-Ray)	Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man (2011) (Blu-Ray)
Crematorium - Season 1 - 2-Disc Set (Blu-Ray)	The Lion in Winter (Blu-Ray)	Arne Dahl: To the Top of the Mountain (2011) (Blu-Ray)