Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

ekeby This is a film that tries to do for men what countless movies have done for women: expose the real pain men feel when love is lost. We've seen the genre exploited for the female market ad infinitum. We rarely see it for men.That's the theme of this movie: how do men deal with the loss of love? For those of you who have seen it and are questioning what the movie was about, consider it. . . . There's the lover who abandons, the lover who is abandoned, the father who rejected, and the lover whose lover dies. Aside from the title, a major clue is the reference to "Rebecca," a film about a man who grieves for lost love, and yet who is accused of murdering that love. It is perhaps the ultimate movie about submerged male emotion. In that film the woman (the second wife) is both a participant and an observer, as is the case with most of the women in this film. Then there's the title, a reference to a Saturnalia, a "party" where traditional roles are reversed. In this movie, it is the women who observe the men dealing with lost love, not the other way around as it usually is.It's not difficult for me to understand the "tepid response" of some reviewers, particularly those who are male. Males are so unplugged from this part of life that it is understandable they could watch a whole movie about lost love and not recognize what it is.

greenylennon I don't know how to feel about this movie. I wanted to like it, but I haven't really liked it. Everybody talked in an enthusiastic way about it, but I can't find many original things. The themes recur too much in Italian cinema, the story could be developed in another way and the director Ferzan Ozpetek relied a lot upon his previous films. But I gave 7 in any case because the soundtrack is amazingly sensual and wraps up the movie well, because Rome is particularly gorgeous here, and because no one could imagine Ambra Angiolini could give such a performance: her character, Roberta, is a drug addict 30-something fond of astrology, sharp and realistic under her silent, tender fragility.

marcus_stokes2000 *Saturno SPOILERS* When young Lorenzo (Luca Argentero) suddenly collapses during a dinner with friends, his (not officially, obviously) husband Davide (Pierfrancesco Favino), and their friends, among whom there is Antonio (Stefano Accorsi), who is cheating on his wife Angelica (Margherita Buy) with a florist (Isabella Ferrari) but still loves her, are all forced to face the fact that he isn't ever going to come back, because as one of them informs the others, it's a condition which you cannot come back from without a miracle, and in real life there are no miracles...I probably am the only one who has added 'Saturno Contro' to his 'Buy As Soon As It Comes Out On DVD' list, but maybe it's because I can relate a lot to the plot, being myself a guy who tries to keep things as they were, 'forever... even if forever isn't possible'.Maybe the fact that it had a top-notch cast (especially good were Argentero, Favino, Accorsi, and Ambra Angiolini as a drug addict businesswoman, who is actually more deep than anyone gives her credit for.Serra Ylmaz is a little obnoxious (as an example, when she scolds Lorenzo a few hours before he slumps into unconsciousness and never returns), Fantastichini is cute as Davide's 'Rebecca, the first wife' (the first wife is the Italian subtitle of the Hitchcock movie Rebecca) ('first' lover) Sergio, and TV Stars Lunetta Savino and Milena Vukotic give two very nice performances, the first as Lorenzo's bubbly stepmother, and the second as a sympathetic nurse.This is my first Ozpetek movie (besides having begun to watch 'La Finestra Di Fronte'), but his subdued directing has already won me over, as has his not making Davide and Lorenzo's relationship some kind of political statement, but showing that homosexuals are not aliens from another world, like some bigoted Government members and Church members seem to think, but people like everyone else, who live and die like everyone else, and suffer as such.The script, and especially the characters, were also well written, and the music by Italian R&B Singer Neffa, who also sang the theme 'Passione' ('Passion') was very involving.One trivia: the title was supposed to be 'Mentre Lorenzo Dorme' ('While Lorenzo Sleeps') before becoming 'Saturno Contro' ('Negative Saturn' - it's an astrology term).Saturno Contro: 9/10.

ccrivelli2005 Ferzan Ozpeteck returns to familiar territory but without the nerve, and self assuredness that he shown in the much better "Le Fatte Ignoranti" This time we're introduced to an unusual little group of friends doing all the usual things. Loving and and deceiving, being honest and compassionate, blatant, timid, courageous, self effacing. At times I thought "Saturno Contro" was going to deal with the tough theme that a gay lover is not a relative with all its thorny connotations but not such luck. Our characters are much more sophisticated and, apparently, the society they all live in, as well. There is no real conflict, really. Death is the thing and death is always powerful, specially when it touches the unsuspecting. Pierfrancesco Favino is wonderful. Human to the hilt. Even when he's given a far too long close up with tears that seem to, awkwardly, fight their way out. Luca Argentero, his lover, is definitely beautiful and gets, like Gabriele Garko in "Le Fatte Ignoranti" the most loving, lingering close ups. Again, I couldn't quite connect with Stefano Accorsi as a character or as an actor. Marherita Buy is a delight, as usual and Serra Yilmaz has become already Ozpeteck's good luck charm and she's always fun to watch. All in all, I was moved and annoyed at the same time.