I don't know how to feel about this movie. I wanted to like it, but I haven't really liked it. Everybody talked in an enthusiastic way about it, but I can't find many original things. The themes recur too much in Italian cinema, the story could be developed in another way and the director Ferzan Ozpetek relied a lot upon his previous films. But I gave 7 in any case because the soundtrack is amazingly sensual and wraps up the movie well, because Rome is particularly gorgeous here, and because no one could imagine Ambra Angiolini could give such a performance: her character, Roberta, is a drug addict 30-something fond of astrology, sharp and realistic under her silent, tender fragility.
Review of Saturn in Opposition
