Nuovo Olimpo

2023 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 7086 7.1K

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Plot summary

In 1970s Rome, a casual encounter between Enea and Pietro at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance — until destiny pulls them apart.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ZeddaZogenau 7 / 10

Memories of Hollywood on the Tiber

In 1978, the Istanbul-born director Ferzan ÖZPETEK came to Rome. And that's exactly when his semi-autobiographical film, which he directed for the global streaming platform NETFLIX, takes place.At the end of the 1970s, Rome and its CINECITTA were the center of the European film industry. Filmmaking is becoming a little more difficult (especially due to the increasing popularity of television in Italy), but CINECITTA can still draw on the triumphs of the past. Classics like IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI show the resolute Titti (great: Luisa RANIERI) in her arthouse cinema NUOVO OLIMPO in the north-east of Rome. The cinema is particularly popular as a meeting place for homosexual men who use the toilet for extensive cruising. The film student Enea (Damiano GAVINO) and the medical student Pietro (Andrea Di LUIGI) also get to know and love each other. The beginning of a great love! But times in Rome back then were extremely complicated for various reasons, as we know from numerous genre films from ItaloCinema. Due to a particularly stupid coincidence, the two young men lose sight of each other. It wasn't until many years later that they met again under dramatic circumstances. The ophthalmologist Pietro is now married to the beautiful Giulia (Greta SCARANO), and the celebrated film director Enea is in a relationship with the robust Antonio (Alvise RIGO)...Beautiful images from Rome (filmed primarily in the Monte Sacro district on the eastern bank of the Tiber), a romantic love story between two men and a wonderfully nostalgic look at the Italian film world! Despite minor weaknesses in the script, Ferzan ÖZPETEK has managed to create a fairytale-like look back at a bygone era.
Reviewed by mrwildgoose 8 / 10

Loved this lovelorn lament

It's an exploration of an undying love and deep longing.Something that 'the heart never forgets', come what may. One can do everything to throw roadblocks in one's own way, or detour to distractions, or run away, but the heart is relentless in what it desires.Good performances from everyone, very believable characters - one could feel the deep ache throughout the movie. But the ending was a bit of a letdown. One would have thought that the sheer force of their feelings would get them to merge, but they inexplicably sabotage themselves again. Though there is an opening left for possible future interaction, the movie actually cuts to an alternate possibility, in the past, when things could have been pleasantly different for them. I wish they had fought for love.It's based on a true story, so I guess they didn't take liberties.
Reviewed by ozjosh 6 / 10

Melodrama Italiano

Gorgeous cinematography. A fabulous soundtrack. Beautiful actors. And some enjoyably full-bodied performances. But for all that Nuovo Olimpo never quite achieves the heights of romantic melodrama to which it aspires. That's partly because the plot is just too silly, even for a Douglas Sirk-style tear-jerker. But also partly because so much of it is just too glossy, too idealised, too calculated for effect. It also doesn't help that the characters have little to no depth. As much as I wanted to surrender to the romance and nostalgia, the clunky artiface of it all constantly gets in the way of any suspension of disbelief. But it's nice to look at, and its worth sticking around for the unintentional comedy provided by a couple of plot twists that you'd only otherwise find in a daytime soap.
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