His Secret Life (2001) (original) (raw)
Original title
Le fate ignoranti (The Ignorant Fairies)
Year
2001
Running time
110 min.
Country
Italy
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Co-production Italy-France;
Genre
Drama. Romance | Gay & Lesbian
Synopsis
AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see her husband's lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with gay and transgendered friends, including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute. Antonia is reluctant to tell these people of her relationship to the dead man, but needs prompting to move on to a new phase of her life.
Awards
2000: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best Actress (Margherita Buy)
2001: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection
2001: European Film Awards: 2 Nominations for Audience Award
Critics' reviews
- "It's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills."
- "Though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity, Ozpetek falls short in showing us Antonia's true emotions ... But at the very least, His Secret Life will leave you thinking."
- "It's a lovely film with lovely performances by Buy and Accorsi."
- "A movie that grows better by the minute."
- "A boisterous, occasionally deft but also finally strained and uneven work."
- "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."
- "Buy is an accomplished actress, and this is a big, juicy role."
- "'Le Fate Ignoranti' is a clever stab at the twilight world of the heterosexual male but it doesn't twist the knife. The premise is quite delicious."
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