"The Unknown Woman" Blogs and Blabs

Director Giuseppe Tornatore’s "The Unknown Woman" is a haunting story of mystery and love about a Russian woman named Irena who calculatedly drops herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple’s trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter, Irena risks everything in her quest to
uncover the truth about the family. Like an intricately constructed jigsaw puzzle, "The Unknown Woman" reveals piece by piece the enigma of Irena’s past.
Approaching to the end, when the mysteries are solved, the great suspense atmosphere ends quickly and the last 15 minutes are pure drama. It's not a bad thing at all, but it wasn't a good choice for the movie. Those scenes doesn't ruin the movie(it's still great for me) but it ruins the chance of making a masterpiece that could be even compared to Hitchcock's suspense classics.
I think that this movie allows Tornatore to examine such current issues as human trafficking and black-market babies is never less than gripping and astonishing. I was very moved and disturbed by some of the images but I felt it really gave the Irena's motives justification. Her revenge was the moral of a very intriguing and helpless story and nonetheless, it was also very believable. Some parts were a bit confusing but all in all it was a great film noir followed by a great score by Ennio Morricone.