Saturn In Opposition (Saturno Contro)

Following our last week success at the Italian film festival we followed this up with another Italian movie in this year’s Italian film festival. We met up at Oxford St for this one. With limited time we couldn’t decide if coffee or dinner was the way to go. So we did the next best thing – brought pizza from a takeaway shop and scoffed it down outside the cinemas like no tomorrow. Gus even managed to sneak a piece in for a movie snack LOL

The minute this movie starts its like the actors have walked off an Italian Vogue magazine. Stylish Rome apartments and very well groomed characters to fit into the picture. One of the reasons I really wanted to watch this movie was because the director is Turkish and there’s a Turkish actress in the movie - Serra Yilmaz. The movie Saturn In Opposition is directed by Ferzan Ozpetek, who apparently is one of the best Italian directors. Mind you I havent heard of him.

The movie revolves around Davide and Lorenzo who are a homosexual couple living in this stylish Italian life in Rome. Now even though this movie is centred around a gay couple the sex is quite discreet and more focused on the lives of these rich people. Just as well as poor Gus was about to throw up the pizza he scoffed down quickly during the gay sex scene.

The movie is more about the fine Italian wine, the fact everyone is failing to give up smoking, social and bedroom issues and random conversation.

By the time you work out who’s connected with who and what the hell is going on something tragic happens.I wont mention what it is for the people that want to watch the movie. The remainder of the movie focuses on the characters responses. The movie gets quite depressive from this moment on. The remainder of the movie focuses on a tribute to friendship and forgiveness.

Now the movie I must admit was well shot. The scenery was amazing, the characters portrayed a realistic atmosphere however one could not feel slightly depressed walking out of that movie. In fact this was us. All 3 of us walked out miserable and totally depressed.

What was the film about? Friendship? Love? Death? I seriously couldn’t tell. There was only one way to fix this – footage from HI to overcome the depression!