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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakSeattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakIstanbul-born director Ferzan Ozpetek has outdone himself with this wise and ruminative mystery about memory, unfulfillment and yearning.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsOzpetek moves things along at a snail's pace and lays the sentiment down thickly. But it's a potent tale, wonderfully acted by Mezzogiorno and Massimo Girotti as the old man.
- 60TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxBlends history and mystery into an entertaining, if somewhat slight, romance.
- Far from a simple, feel-good story of self-discovery, Facing Windows delivers a challenging examination of loneliness and human interaction.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenDespite its surreal touches and an improbable story that piles on the metaphors, the movie, which has a rich, honey-dripping score by Andrea Guerra, maintains a tone of refined heart-tugging realism.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliProbably best skipped - unless you have a penchant for shallow, "comfortable" foreign films that offer obvious messages and never attempt to challenge the viewer.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoGets off to a worthy start, but falls apart about halfway through.
- 40VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungOnly partially succeeds in interweaving questions of family loyalty with historical memory and the fate of Italian Jews in WW2.
- 40L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasStructurally, it's ambitious, but emotionally the movie never quite connects, spending so much time laboring over its parallel storytelling and its cosmic connections that the characters remain at arm's length, as intangible as reflections in glass.
- 30Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterBlends past and present to draw some utterly stupefying parallels.