Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek. Italy. 2010. 113mins. After struggling with his last three films, Italo-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek is back on form with the breezy but passionate Loose Cannons, a likeable and commercially viable coming-out comedy set in Italys Deep South. With its themes of family secrets, oddball character parts, bittersweet tone and sunny outlook, this is the easily the most Almodovar-esque of all Ozpeteks films. [This film suggests that Ferzan Ozpetek is moving towards a contemporary revival of the commedia allitaliana genre, which can only be good for him and for audiences] Italian to its core, the film will work especially on home ground, where it is set for release on March 12 through 01 Distribuzione. It may be old hat in Hollywood, but Ozpetek proves that in other territories there is still plenty of mileage in the coming out story, not least because provincial attitudes lag well behind the urban norms. Unfortunately, however, this could mean that the mainly metropolitan audience for foreign language fare might view this as a sweet but rather dated curio thats a little too broad to be taken seriously. Set in Lecce, a sandstone city in the heel of the Italian boot, the film focuses on the extended Cantone family, who make pasta on an industrial scale. Within three minutes, Ozpeteks restless camera is circling a table of happy Italians eating their meal in the courtyard of a big old Pugliese house: youngest son Tommaso (Italys current favourite romantic <b>...</b>