Facing Windows

– Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust surviv..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.40 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 46 Minutes
Release Year:
2003
Original Name:
La finestra di fronte
Facing Windows (2003) - Also known as La finestra di fronte

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.

Release Date:

18 Jun 2004

Language:

Italian

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Ferzan Ozpetek

Writer:

Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli

Main Actors:

Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro

Plot:

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.

Awards:

27 wins & 22 nominations.

Gross profit:

$373,955

Production:

Sony Pictures Classics

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
Metacritic:
55%