DVD - Sacred Heart

SACRED HEART

(15) 116min (Soda Pictures DVD Retail)

DRAMA

Ferzan Hamam: Turkish Bath Ozpetek’s latest film plays a little like a combination of two much better, fairly recent Italian works which haven’t received a wide release: The Spectator and Marco Bellocchio’s My Mother’s Smile (both available on DVD outside the UK), the first about a young woman in emotional crisis; the latter about the possibility of the miraculous within a family. Here Barbora Bobulova, who starred in The Spectator, plays another wounded soul, but this time out with money to burn. She’s a young property developer who finds her conscience after befriending a little female street urchin who may well have all the attributes of a saint.

Will Irene (Bobulova) continue to use her and her family’s wealth for endless development in the capitalist sense, or will she start to find a way of redistributing her vast resources? Ozpetek’s films usually deal with some sort of impending crisis in the face of a certain situation, location or person, and this is another very efficiently made example. But seek out the vastly superior Bellocchio film if you can. Extras are a director’s commentary only.

(Tony McKibbin)

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