First look and see...
Then you think, wait a minute...
No, it isn't...is it?
It can't be--can it?
Am I crazy?
And then you blink, and shake your head--he was in Casanova?
He's even in Venice!
And although he's played an amazing gay character in a moving film, the actor is actually straight, has a fiance and who is about to have a child--wait, Matilda Rose was born last year--WHO is this?
No, it isn't
Heath Ledger--he's his Italian Doppelganger, and his name is
Stefano Accorsi--
If you get a chance to see his wonderful movie 'His Secret Life' (Italian title 'Le Fate Ignoranti,' or the 'Ignorant Fairies' by the Turkish writer-director Ferzan Ozpetak, also written and directed 'Steam/The Turkish Bath') I think you will definitely feel this is 'Mandatory Viewing!'
"...The film is lovely and touching....The acting is impeccable, and the intentions are serious and noble..." -- A. O. Scott, New York Times 09/20/2002
"...Impressive....[A] perceptive probe into the complexities and ambiguities of sexual identity....This graceful and wise film moves to its denouement with subtlety and, at its end, strikes a note that seems just right for all that has gone before..." -- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times 10/04/2002
When Antonia (Margherita Buy) loses her husband Massimo in a terrifying car accident, she is devastated. Taking care of necessary business after his death, she runs across a painting, a gift to her husband with a note attached indicating that Antonia's partner of 15 years had been indiscreet for seven of them. She tracks down his lover and finds that Massimo has been involved in a homosexual affair with a man named Michele (Stefano Accorsi). She also finds in Michele's home an adopted family of misfits who all knew and loved her deceased husband. As Antonia attempts to understand her husband's secret, she becomes accepted into this commune and also begins to have some of her own loving admirers, including Michele. Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek (STEAM: THE TURKISH BATH) directs this touching film that places caring and understanding before judgement or anger.Give it a try!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274497/
