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Rating: Many great films. I look here to get informed, hear opinions. Sometimes I don't agree with everything, but you write very well. Sometimes you follow a tortuous path, like the twists and turns of the brain, and then I risk getting off track at the first curve. That's why I find myself like a new Alice in Wonderland, incredulous, I can't find any review of a movie, "La Dea Fortuna," by Ferzan Orzpetek, is it possible that no one has seen it? Oh no, I can't believe it, just come out, say you've seen Ferzan's latest film, nothing will happen.
Anyway, I'll start myself: the story is so banal it disrupts your hypotheses of complexity, of inner contortions, in short, of mental handwaving.
A couple, an official relationship of 15 years (not just one!), made of great love and passion, which however doesn't seem to be enough to keep it together. Different personalities, different jobs, maybe a pinch of mismatched? Oh well, hard to say, but maybe not. Love, Jealousy, Possession, Repressed Urges: is being monogamous a mission impossible? Who knows. In an apparently solid bond, there are unfulfilled desires and frustrations: the Cerebral love, from the waist up, is still there, but something is wrong from the waist down.
In short, Arturo (Stefano Accorsi) and Alessandro (Edoardo Leo) are a couple in crisis, like so many.
In this unstable equilibrium comes a variable: two children are entrusted to them by a mutual friend, which brings further disequilibrium. This event induces Alessandro and Arturo to set aside, at least temporarily, their dissatisfaction to take care of the needs of the Other, reaching far beyond their narrow and necessarily selfish horizon; some might dare to define it as a small secular miracle.
I don't think there's anything else to add, even though the spoiler-age of the film has gone well beyond. The story, inspired by a true event, doesn't follow precise canons, it rather pursues feelings, travels familiar and forgotten roads. Love under the ashes? Unquenched hopes?
As I was saying a few lines above, it is a story so banal that I can't help but recommend it to you. Ozpetek doesn't disappoint: love, disappointment, hope, Humanity. We are Us.
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