olesandra The main Özpetek's achievement is making the film absolutely sensible on every second. With various layers of meanings, light and shadows, music, lots of curious details and quite natural behavior of the characters. I feel like I can enter Pietro's house, walk in the streets and buy a croissant that he baked. And let it better be an Almodòvar-style than Marshall- or Niccol-style. Viewers don't have to be stunned and blinded by movies. They just have to sense all hidden hints and allusions. Otherwise a bit at a time they turn into zombies packed with pop-corn.People should be more humane, sensitive and attentive to the world around us. And for this important reminding I'm really grateful - Özpetek, Teşekkürler!

cskoog This is the work of a mature storyteller who understands how to use film and music to lead the viewer into unusual and surprising places. There is much to delight an audience here, from subtle crossings and recrossings of genre boundaries, to moments of humor of an almost metaphysical dimension, to serious offerings of perspective on time, mortality, and history. I enjoyed particularly the way the filmmaker genially hoodwinks the viewer step by step into assenting to a story that becomes increasingly less predictable at the same time that its dependence on a sort of half-magical realism becomes more and more firmly established. The film does have an evident homoerotic subtext, and perhaps cultural 'flavor', but in a way that (for a change) does not limit its appeal. Rather, it reaches toward a kind universality that puts it in company with works of art that are for everyone whose heart and mind are in working order.

mgorkem On the surface we really are told a fairy-tale. But just on the surface. The movie is (to me) all about love(or passion) versus obsessionin in addition to loyalty versus betrayal all in the life of people. We see how a group of players loyal to themselves, their art, and to freedom manages to live and reach eventually beyond their time and life (even if they are just imaginary ghosts). Betraying member, who were loyal to herself only... A monster she became eventually. Not to spoil too much, lastly how important is doing or wanting things with passion and love no matter what it is (making cakes or becoming an artist) is presented in cute and clever way by the director. It seems that the message is that all that "small / ordinary" people are in fact the real/biggest/highest/ultimate "human" beings if they are okay with what they are and if they have intimacy, love and passion in their life.Being human is not that complicated and in fact is full of richness in so many distinct conditions and times

serkansemiz I felt this movie is made not for the audience but just for one. I could not find anything special about the scenario. Souls trapped in a house, and then? Pietro's job, and other -let's say- workers in the kitchen. What is point in the gaze of the workers to Pietro? and Massimo! just to emphasize that Pietro is an obsessed lover and he could not find what he is looking for. Maria and the doctor, why are they in the story? What was Ozpetek expecting when we saw the son and grandson of Yusuf Antep in their pharmacy. Maybe the scenario is too deep that I can not see anything and started to drown. I am sure Ozpetek could do and will do better.