His Secret Life
by Ferzan Ozpetek
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Actor: Erika Blanc, Gabriel Garko, Margherita Buy, Serra Yilmaz, Stefano AccorsiDirector: Ferzan Ozpetek
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Italian (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Strand Releasing
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Movie Review: A Pleasant Surprise
Summary: 4 Stars
I was pleasantly surprised that this film turned out to be much more multi-layered than the way it was marketed. A woman loses her husband in a car accident. She soon discovers her husband had a lover. She is more shocked to find that the lover was a man. At first angry and resentful, Antonia soon replaces her husband in his circle of friends. In so doing, she discovers he had a completely separate life which had nothing to do with hers. His friends know more about him than she did. The only person who doesn't welcome her with open arms, however, is her husband's lover, who feels as if she is trying to replace her husband with his group of quirky friends.
There is a sense of competition and jealousy between the two people who loved the dead man most. The jealousy and resentment only increases when Antonia is accepted into the fold of her husband's friends. The characters of the friends are fascinating. Many of them are Turkish immigrants, some are straight, some are gay, and one marvelous character is trans-gender. One of the young Turkish men even falls for the older Antonia. The end is a bit too tidy and stretches the limits of how to end a film in a tidy manner. Still, the characterizations are wonderful and the acting is very strong, and I enjoyed this movie very much.
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