Wasn't planning on posting again today, but I just saw the best movie ever. Seriously, it's gonna be on my private Top Ten list - if there ever was one. Okay, maybe it would be Top Twenty or something... not that it matters anyway - some movies just make my heart stop with the overwhelming truth and beauty of them, and this one certainly did. I just picked it at random at the nearest Blockbuster's, because I felt like watching something I haven't seen before... I never expected it to be a masterpiece. I am still shaken from the sheer amount of squealing with laughter AND bawling my eyes out - occasionally at the same time. Just... there are no words. *dies*
Okay. Now the details - just in case anyone else wants to see it too.;) It's called His Secret Life, and it's an Italian movie by a Turkish director, Ferzan Ozpetek. Anyway, it takes place in Italy and most of the cast is Italian, but there are Turkish accents as well. And the plot is seemingly cliche: a wife loses a husband in a car accident, then finds out he had a lover. A male lover. Of course there are a hundred different ways to deal with such a premise, but I certainly never expected the film to be so deep. So profoundly touching. So crazy, and yet so totally believable. In the way that life is UNbelievable sometimes... if you know what I mean.;) It has some hot slashy action in it as well - but I almost feel like not mentioning that at all, because that's not what really matters, and it's not what the movie is about. Just a bonus.;) Oh, and if you want a clearer idea of how this movie feels, think All About My Mother by Almodovar. Just the same amount of comedy AND tragedy, pain and joy, death and life, weaved seamlessly together (not to mention that it has all sorts of lovely "freaks" in it as well ;). I never thought it was actually possible to outdo Almodovar at that... but this film almost does.:)
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