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The aesthetics, pace, decoration, costumes and cinematography remind us the best legacy of the Italian cinema. Nice performances and staging in a very beautiful, deep and humane Italian movie.

The narrative revolves around families who live on three floors of the same building, and each family has its subplot. You might even say that each family has its plot and we get three movies, intermingled, for the price of one. In Israel, where the original Three Floors novel comes from, there was even a stage play called The Third Floor that was based on a single one of them.

Although the novel is set in Israel, the plot and characters are reimagined in Rome for the film. There are a dozen characters to keep track of, and it's to the filmmakers' credit that keeping them straight is not a hopeless chore. The characters are interesting and believable, and they certainly go through a lot, but the film doesn't present us with any major character to identify with wholeheartedly. What we get is more like a human tapestry.

Very bitter but powerful drama which follows the stories of the tenants of three apartments, placed on three different floors of a small residential condo in Rome. They make tough choices - each one obeying to what they belive is right.

Time exposes them to the consequences of their decisions and to the causes of their suffering. This leads to a few changes of perspective,when the reasons of the others are eventually seen and understood.

A film who I love. For the honest perspective of relations between neighbors, for the clear portrait of relations children - parents, for the fair image of marriage crisis, for the gentle and precise exploration of emotions and reactions and truth.

Three families living, for 30 years, in same building.

Each five years mark a change in their lives.

And their reactions, about a son killing a woman, about a senile man and a little girl and their presumed relation in vision of father, about a mother animated by a menthal ill, like her mother, about a young woman and her first sexual experience are pieces of connections, falls, hope, new beginnings, fears and sources of courage and reconciliation.

A beautiful film in profound sense, proposing more than individual story but reminding, in inspired way, the universe defining Nanno Moretti creation.

Another Moretti typical setting so plenty of Rome and silences, rich houses and spoiled people. Yet it is not forcibly filled with Italian stereotypes. Nanni Moretti is still bringing realism to the table. The move is interesting and can be seen just following along the plot without paying much attention but I am convinced there are different level of interpretation and maybe it's personal based on each one relation to a character or a situation.

After reflecting upon it, I come to the conclusion that the movie is about psychology. All the main characters have an obsession that profoundly affect their lives and their beloved ones.

This subtle fil rouge is worth all the movie.