Synopsis
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
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Cast
- Margherita BuyAntonia
- Stefano AccorsiMichele
- Serra YılmazSerra
- Gabriel GarkoErnesto
- Erika BlancVeronica
- Andrea RenziMassimo
- Koray CandemirEmir
- Lucrezia ValiaMara
- Filippo NigroRiccardo
- Ivan BacchiLuciano
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Tribune
A work about memory and loss, His Secret Life becomes a forum of Antonia's liberation of consciousness and feeling, but there are too many contradictory moods sharing the same space, resulting in a tentativeness and uncertainty. - 80
Washington Post
A movie that grows better by the minute. - 80
Variety
The well-structured film goes beyond issues of sexuality, giving nuanced consideration to broader questions of love and loss, family and friendship, trust, lies and deception. - 80
Dallas Observer
Keeping the mood dry, Ozpetek and his very resourceful leading lady keep the proceedings from turning into an Almodóvar version of Mary Worth. - 75
Boston Globe
It's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Startlingly original comedy-drama. - 70
The A.V. Club
His Secret Life's languid pace and general aimlessness keep getting in the way. - 70
Village Voice
It's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives Secret Life its intermittent unease, reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality, and that erasing them recasts the self. And it's this existential gerrymandering that's most compelling.
