# His Secret Life (2001)

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**Original title**: *Le fate ignoranti*
**Runtime**: 106 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: Ferzan Özpetek
**Written by**: Ferzan Özpetek, Gianni Romoli
**Starring**: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yılmaz, Gabriel Garko, Erika Blanc, Andrea Renzi

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A quiet grieving widow stumbles into the back rooms of her marriage only to find the produce aisle fully stocked with feelings. The widowed Antonia discovers Massimo’s double life in a grocery warehouse romance that smells faintly of bad decisions and good peaches. Funny how love turns into a loyalty punchline when the produce wholesaler shows up holding a membership card.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, tender

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