Director Ferzan Özpetek captures the loves and lives of a group of seamstresses working on a fictional 18th-century period drama Director Ferzan Özpetek captures the loves and lives of a group of seamstresses working on a fictional 18th-century period drama I f we are being honest this comedy-drama set in a costume atelier in 1970s Rome is a little light on the comedy, while the drama is decidedly on the melo end of the scale, even a bit absurd at times. But there’s something about it that is