
AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see her husband's lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with gay and transgender friends, including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute. Antonia is reluctant to tell these people of her relationship to the dead man, but needs prompting to move on to a new phase of her life.... (Full plot summary below)
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AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see her husband's lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with gay and transgender friends, including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute. Antonia is reluctant to tell these people of her relationship to the dead man, but needs prompting to move on to a new phase of her life.
Leave your thoughts about His Secret Life.
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyIt's a lovely film with lovely performances by Buy and Accorsi. |
| NewsdayJan StuartAs Antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community, the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure, daytime-drama sort of fashion. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoDirector Ferzan Ozpetek's film doesn't break any new ground; rather, it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera. |
| CitysearchMichael PhillipsIt treats us to beautiful insights and tragic struggles that swell the heart and make us feel genuine empathy for two people embracing the truth amidst a pack of lies. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original, but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIt's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills. |
| New TimesDavid EhrensteinKeeping the mood dry, Ozpetek and his very resourceful leading lady keep the proceedings from turning into an Almodóvar version of Mary Worth. |
| Times (UK)James ChristopherLe 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. |
| Miami HeraldMarta BarberEven the graceful ending, one that lifts the film a notch, is startling. But at the very least, His Secret Life will leave you thinking. |
| South Florida Sun-SentinelLaura KellyOzpetek 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. |