Genre: Comedic Romantic Drama

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Ferzan Ozpetek

Cast: Nicole Grimaudo, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ilaria Occhini, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantastichini

Released: 2010

Duration: 109 Minutes

Rating: M contains offensive language

Distribution: Transmission Films

2010 David Di Donatello: Best Supporting Actor and Actress

Tommaso, an aspiring writer, is the youngest child in the large, eccentric Cantone family who own a pasta factory in Puglia. He has come home from Rome for an important family dinner at which his father will hand over the management of the pasta factory to him and his brother, Antonio. Determined to assert his own personal choices, Tommaso plans to announce at the dinner that he is gay. But that evening, just as he begins to say, “silence please”, to Tommaso’s surprise, and everyone else’s shock, he is upstaged by his brother.

This is Ozpetek (‘Facing Windows’, ‘Ignorant Fairies’) at his best, skilfully portraying the dizzying complexities of the relationships within large extended Italian families where everyone seems to hide at least one secret. 

Subtle, tantalising, a wonderfully witty film.

“With its themes of family secrets, oddball character parts, bittersweet tone and sunny outlook, this is the easily the most Almodovar-esque of all Ozpetek’s films.”  Screen International.