Sorrow mounts to the exclusion of everything else in Three Floors (Tre Piani), a decade-spanning account of the ongoing misfortunes of multiple families residing in a comfortable Roman apartment complex.From the opening scene, writer-director Nanni Moretti, adapting a best-selling novel by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, has chosen to focus only on the misfortunes and regrettable incidents of those years, an approach that oddly, and melodramatically, stacks the deck in a way that seems forced and unrealistic.
This over-balance stressing the negative, rather than all things of life, works to the film’s detriment, making it seem, ultimately, not true to life.This unfortunate emphasis undercuts plenty of solid dramatic scenes and the
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