Diamonds

In “Diamonds,” director Ferzan Özpetek assembles a group of his favorite actresses, women he has worked with and women he has loved, with the intention of making a film about women. He observes them, takes notes, and says little, until his imagination transports them all to another era. In that past, the hum of sewing machines fills a workshop run entirely by women, men occupy only the margins, and cinema is told from a perspective rarely given center stage: costume.

Loneliness, passion, anxiety, devastating loss, and unbreakable bonds blur the line between reality and fiction, between the actresses and their characters, between rivalry and sisterhood, between what is seen and what is not.