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Title: Facing Windows (2003)
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| Giovanna Mezzogiorno | ... | Giovanna | |
| Massimo Girotti | ... | Simone / Davide Veroli | |
| Raoul Bova | ... | Lorenzo | |
| Filippo Nigro | ... | Filippo | |
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Serra Yilmaz | ... | Eminè |
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Maria Grazia Bon | ... | Sara |
| Massimo Poggio | ... | Young Davide | |
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Ivan Bacchi | ... | Simone |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Chiara Andreis | ||
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Veronica Bruni | ... | Tintora |
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Olimpia Carlisi | ... | Donna negozio stoffe |
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Ohame-Brancy Chibuzo | ... | Alessio (as Ohame Brancy Chibuzo) |
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Carlo Daniele | ... | Marco |
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Rosaria De Cicco | ... | Barista |
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Lucianna De Falco | ... | Marilena |
Giovanna has been married to her devoted husband for nine years. She carries the responsibility for the whole family. The strain of this begins to show when her overly considerate husband adds another burden by bringing home an elderly amnesiac, a man with a painful past. Written by yusufpiskin
"Facing Windows (La Finestra di fronte)" is like a very European and more sophisticated take on "The Notebook," as it shifts between romantic and culinary past and present through the in-and-out consciousness of an elderly man.
The "Rear Window" eroticism is just one element that accidentally brings together tangled, stymied lives swirling around lovely, exhausted, frustrated chef, wife and mother Giovanna Mezzogiorno, where each child, man, woman, friend and neighbor has separate priorities and fantasies that annoying real life interferes with, from the practical to the political.
Each character and their ties are both delightfully and surprisingly complex and the actors are so comfortable bringing each to complete life that you think you too should be able to come out of the theater speaking Italian so naturally.
But this is a frank, gritty, contemporary, urban Italy we don't usually get to see, with multi-racial immigrants, underemployment and a Fascist past.
The sentimentalism of the live with no regrets lesson is leavened by the seriousness of the final revelations and the compromises that each character still makes.
The music selections nicely fit each character.