Diamanti review – luscious-looking 1970s costume melodrama is a sumptuously soapy dramedy

Director Ferzan Özpetek captures the loves and lives of a group of seamstresses working on a fictional 18th-century period drama If 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 irresistible, especially if you are in any way sympathetic to queer-accented celebrations of women played by powerhouse ensembles i…