Blends romance, mystery and fantasy to beguiling effect.
BBC FILMS

The film answers every why, fitting the pieces of the puzzle together with infinite subtlety, so that by the end the heart is engaged and feelings twist in the wind…Facing Window unravels without the aid of sentimentality. Mezzogiorno’s performance gathers in strength, ultimately squeezing every drop of emotion from a role that begins with rage and ends in hope.
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A lush retreat for voyeurs and hopeless romantics.
ATTITUDE

A sumptuous bourgeois romantic drama full of parallels and symmetries, repressed passions and sacrifice…A film clearly under the influence of recent Almodóvar, this has the Spaniard’s chic elegance
TIME OUT

Ferzan Ozpetek has always exhibited an atmospheric sense of place and he makes the most of the backstreets of Rome in this sincere study of suppressed secrets and second chances…Girotti manages a moving display of wounded bemusement
RADIO TIMES

Deliciously bittersweet.
EMPIRE

As the initially reluctant Good Samaritan, Mezzogiorno gives a touching account of rueful self-discovery
THE INDEPENDENT