Facing Windows (2003)
Original title: la finestra di fronte
Production: UK, Italy|106 min
Dramatic, Romantic

giovanna and filippo, despite being very young, have been married for nine years and have two children: she works as an accountant in an industrial poultry shop and he gets by going from one precarious job to another. giovanna's life flows between work rhythms, children to take to school, dinner to prepare, a job she doesn't like; the life he wanted to do is forgotten in the folds of a daily newspaper that is always the same, beset by economic difficulties. in the evening, when the children are in bed, in the moment of quiet before turning off the lights, giovanna spies from the window her neighbor, lorenzo, whose window is right in front of his. one day she and her husband meet an old gentleman on the street who has lost his memory: not knowing what to do, they welcome him into the house for a few days and it will be giovanna who will have to take care of him and discover, slowly, what is hidden in his past.
Festivals and awards
Nastro Argento 2003 - nomination Migliore produttore
EFA - European Film Award 2003 - nomination EFA People's Choice Award - Best European Actress
Assigned to: Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Assigned to: Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Ciak Oro 2004 - nomination Migliore sonoro in presa diretta
Assigned to: Marco Grillo, Claudio Paolucci
Assigned to: Marco Grillo, Claudio Paolucci
Ciak Oro 2003 - nomination Migliore sonoro in presa diretta
Assigned to: Claudio Paolucci, Marco Grillo
Assigned to: Claudio Paolucci, Marco Grillo
Direction

Production and Screenplay



Tilde Corsi: produttore


Interpreters and Characters



Technical staff
Patrizio Marone: montatore


Claudio Paolucci: fonico
Maura Turchi: parrucchiere
Marco Grillo: fonico

Ermanno Spera: truccatore
Aurora Gambelli: parrucchiere
Katia Dottori: costumista
Pino Pellegrino: casting
Massimiliano Nocente: arredatore
Marco Catalucci: parrucchiere