The Turkish Bath House: Steam

Language: Italian + Turkish

Story: An Italian married interior designer in Rome inherits a bath house from his aunt who had moved to Istanbul decades earlier. He is always cold, and reflective to everyone around him. He goes to explore and falls in love with a guy in Istanbul in the process of trying to sell the bath house. He decides to retain the bath house and bring it back to its previous glory. His wife drops by for a visit since she had in the mean time fallen for another person and wants to break it off with him. But she sees him making out with this guy and gets really wild. But in the process, she realises that her husband is no longer the cold perfectly poised person she knew and hated but instead falls in love with him all over again for who he has become in spite of the fact that he is now in love with someone else. She wonders if she is confused or just wants what she cannot have. Then the husband gets knifed by some mafia type guy for not selling the bath house and dies. The wife stays behind in Istanbul where she finds peace in restoring the bath house and she becomes the new Madame of the neighbourhood that the aunt previously was.

What I find interesting about this movie was that, even though it explored sexuality and finding someone to be with, it ended with finding peace in spite of being single. Maybe being single myself, I found that appealing.

Ending: Pensive and positive.