 Facing Windows
Starring: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra Yilmaz, Massimo Poggio, Ivan Bacchi
Directed by: Ferzan Ozpetek
Screenplay by: Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli
Release Date: June 11, 2004
MPAA Rating: R for language, sexuality.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
 Domestic: $543,354 (3.5%)
Foreign: $14,986,723 (96.5%)
Total: $15,530,077 (Worldwide)
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 1943, Italy: In the darkest days of the war, a young baker’s apprentice suddenly murders his employer before taking to the empty midnight streets, frantically searching for someone or something… a haunting image of passion, rage and desperation.
Sixty years later: Passion seems to be missing from the life of Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), a young wife and mother of two who appears to have found some sense of domestic peace.
Her husband, Filippo (Filippo Nigro), is a good man, but saddled with a poor-paying night shift, and Giovanna supplements her own full-time income as a poultry inspector by baking pastries and deserts for a local pub.
With more than enough to do, Giovanna isn’t too pleased when Filippo insists on bringing home a confused elderly man (Massimo Girotti) they find wandering in the streets. In and out of lucidity, the old man utters a single name (“Simone”), and to appease Giovanna, Filippo insists that he will take the man to a police station the following morning. But by the next evening, the old man is still there. Once again, Filippo has let her down.
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