Naples in Veils
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2018
May 31 - June 6, 2018
A medical examiner’s new lover abruptly disappears in this moody, baroque thriller from Turkish director Ozpetek, which recasts Naples as a shadowy, mysterious labyrinth of desire and memory.
Encore screening added!
In this moody, baroque thriller from Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek, Giovanna Mezzogiorno stars as Adriana, a medical examiner who meets cute with younger man Andrea (Alessandro Borghi) during a party at her eccentric aunt’s garish apartment. They hit it off immediately, though their romance is curtailed when Andrea later stands her up. While inspecting a corpse at work, Adriana notices a distinctive tattoo that reminds her of Andrea’s—at least as she remembers it. So begins a gripping metaphysical murder mystery, in which Naples becomes a shadowy, mysterious labyrinth of desire and memory.
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