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- 2002
- R
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 46 m
- 2002
- R
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 46 m
Summary When a ten-year marriage ends with the death of the husband in a car crash, the distraught wife discovers her husband had a male lover. Against all odds, they become friends.
Directed By: Ferzan Özpetek
Written By: Gianni Romoli, Ferzan Özpetek
- 2002
- R
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 46 m
- 2002
- R
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 46 m
The Ignorant Fairies
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6.5
Summary When a ten-year marriage ends with the death of the husband in a car crash, the distraught wife discovers her husband had a male lover. Against all odds, they become friends.
Directed By: Ferzan Özpetek
Written By: Gianni Romoli, Ferzan Özpetek
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
69
88% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
This graceful and wise film moves to its denouement with subtlety and, at its end, strikes a note that seems just right for all that has gone before.
Keeping the mood dry, Ozpetek and his very resourceful leading lady keep the proceedings from turning into an Almodóvar version of Mary Worth.
A movie that grows better by the minute.
The acting is impeccable, and the intentions are serious and noble, but the affection it elicits stops short of love, and its coziness never risks true intimacy.
It's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives Secret Life its intermittent unease, reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality, and that erasing them recasts the self. And it's this existential gerrymandering that's most compelling.
Even the graceful ending, one that lifts the film a notch, is startling. But at the very least, His Secret Life will leave you thinking.
Director Ferzan Ozpetek's film doesn't break any new ground; rather, it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera.
User Score
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Generally Favorable
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Awards
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, Italy
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Golden Ciak Awards
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
