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      Ignorant Fairies

      R Released Sep 20, 2002 1 hr. 46 min. Drama List
      74% 35 Reviews Tomatometer 89% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score This film tells the story of an upper-middle class woman who has always lived in her husband's shadow, in a villa in a residential suburb of Rome. The husband's sudden death in a car accident makes her fall into a state of deep depression, from which she begins to emerge when by chance she finds out that her husband had always led a secret life parallel to their own. She then begins to investigate, searches for her husbands' friends and discovers a world which is completely new to her. Read More Read Less
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      Critics Consensus

      Well-acted soap opera.

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      Audience Member Ozpetek con lo spaccato di una compagnia di disadattati, di atipici personaggi che si ritrovano a formare una famiglia, e ad accogliere tra di loro anche la protagonista che li trova mentre vaga alla ricerca dell'amante del defunto marito. C'è la normalità nei gesti e nelle giornate che passano e che fa da contraltare alla peculiarità esagerata di quasi tutti i personaggi che passano davanti allo schermo. Il risultato è una sceneggiatura che racconta con classe una storia tanto atipica quanto credibile nel suo svolgimento e nei suoi dialoghi. Fa da padrona la coppia Buy - Accorsi in un ottimo mix tra sfuriate e sensualità, amicizia ed amore. Alcuni personaggi vengono un po' tralasciati e fungono solo da sfondo. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member A parte la locandina americana che ricorda tanto un film porno gay di bassa lega, il film è interessante quanto a trama, anche se la parte con Gabriel Garko e la sottotrama dell'aids l'ho trovata non molto integrata con il resto. Ozpetek come regista non sembra riuscire a dare un qualcosa in più al film, se non la rappresentazione molto veritiera e poco stereotipata del mondo LGBT. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member A widow and her husband's lover of 7 years meet. What happens later is a wild and bumpy ride. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Ozpetek è la versione italo turca di serie B di Almodovar. Le storie non sono troppo banali ma vi è sempre qualcosa di banale nel raccontarle. Già visto. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member The symbolism is overt to the ending shot, but that doesn't mean the film is bad; in fact, the film is quite good. I had one technical critique about the film and that is it seems the entire film was shot on the same lens. Every shot goes out of focus in the background save two or three. The sets are lavish and well lit so I am confused as to why such an artistic approach was brought to the film. It works quite well, but the framing seems to indicate that the director sees the love between same-gendered couples as shallow in opposition to what he's trying to convey, which is the contrary. After watching it a few more times, I may understand the meaning behind this, but it seems lazy to shoot an entire film with one or two lenses. Other than that, I loved the lighting, the story, the camera blocking, and the performances. Many things I miss because I don't speak Italian, granted, but I guess my only other complaint or critique would be that there's such a deep rooted respect among the entire group but outright nobody treats anyone else with respect. That seemed strange to me, but I don't know the culture or the language, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt that I'm missing something in context. I did love the dialogue between the main characters, however. It was very refreshing and . . . real. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Muy buena, excelente película de Ozpetek!! No se dejen llevar por ese burdo cartel! Un historia llena de drama y surrealismo! Super recomendable. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Ignorant Fairies (2001) Ignorant Fairies (2001) Ignorant Fairies (2001) Ignorant Fairies (2001) Stefano Accorsi (Michele) in "His Secret Life." Stefano Accorsi (Michele) and Margherita Buy (Antonia) (right to left) in "His Secret Life." View more photos

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      James Christopher Times (UK) Le Fate Ignoranti is a clever stab at the twilight world of the heterosexual male but it doesn't twist the knife. The premise is quite delicious. Dec 7, 2018 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 3/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review Jamie Russell BBC.com Ozpetek offers an AIDS subtext, skims over the realities of gay sex, and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight, middle class bores like Antonia can feel good about themselves. Rated: 3/5 Mar 23, 2003 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Jul 10, 2005 Full Review Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion At once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance. Rated: C Feb 19, 2003 Full Review David Ehrenstein New Times Ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled. Feb 14, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis This film tells the story of an upper-middle class woman who has always lived in her husband's shadow, in a villa in a residential suburb of Rome. The husband's sudden death in a car accident makes her fall into a state of deep depression, from which she begins to emerge when by chance she finds out that her husband had always led a secret life parallel to their own. She then begins to investigate, searches for her husbands' friends and discovers a world which is completely new to her.
      Director
      Ferzan Ozpetek
      Screenwriter
      Gianni Romoli, Ferzan Ozpetek
      Distributor
      Medusa Distribuzione, Spin Film, Europa Filmes [br], Cinemien, Strand Releasing, Cinévia Films, Vértigo Films S.L., Primer Plano Film Group S.A., PPR Film
      Production Co
      R&C Produzioni, Les Films Balenciaga
      Rating
      R (Language|Sexuality)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Italian
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 20, 2002, Original
      Release Date (DVD)
      Mar 25, 2003
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $215.3K
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)