Facing Windows
– Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust surviv..
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.
18 Jun 2004
Italian
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.
Ferzan Ozpetek
Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli
Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro
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.
27 wins & 22 nominations.
$373,955
Sony Pictures Classics