Le Fate Ignoranti is a clever stab at the twilight world of the heterosexual male but it doesn't twist the knife. The premise is quite delicious.

| Dec 7, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2005

Ozpetek offers an AIDS subtext, skims over the realities of gay sex, and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight, middle class bores like Antonia can feel good about themselves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2003

It's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2003

At once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance.

| Original Score: C | Feb 19, 2003

Ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled.

| Feb 14, 2003

The two leads give wonderful performances and when they try to connect with each other it's as awkward and desperate as you would expect, also real and touching.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 14, 2003

It's a lovely film with lovely performances by Buy and Accorsi.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2003

A warm but realistic meditation on friendship, family and affection.

| Original Score: B | Feb 13, 2003

Ozpetek succeeds in portraying small nuances that demonstrate the stages of love -- unrequited or blossoming -- and in showcasing the family structure created by a group of people who have been rejected for one reason or another.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 7, 2003

Though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity, Ozpetek falls short in showing us Antonia's true emotions ... But at the very least, His Secret Life will leave you thinking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2003

This is lightweight filmmaking, to be sure, but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men.

| Jan 26, 2003

Despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 17, 2003

A movie that grows better by the minute.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2003

With all the sympathy, empathy and pity fogging up the screen...His Secret Life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 25, 2002

Full of profound, real-life moments that anyone can relate to, it deserves a wide audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2002

A boisterous, occasionally deft but also finally strained and uneven work.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 14, 2002

The film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original, but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2002

Buy is an accomplished actress, and this is a big, juicy role.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2002