Three Floors

Director: Nanni Moretti
Year Released: 2021
Rating: 1.5

There's plenty happening in just one building in Rome: drunken Andrea (Alessandro Sperduti) - whose parents Dora (Margherita Buy) and Vittorio (Moretti) are judges - accidentally kills a woman with his car, Lucio (Riccardo Scamarcio) is convinced his 7-year-old daughter Francesca (Chiara Abalsamo) was molested by a sickly neighbor and Monica (Alba Rohrwacher) has to raise a child by herself with her husband always away for work.  Moretti, working off the novel by Israeli novelist Eshkol Nevo, juggles a lot of characters (at different ages) but we never find out much about any of them and leaves more questions than answers: does having one's Mother and Father involved in the legal system lead to affluenza?  Why does Lucio not accept the doctor's diagnosis for his little girl?  What's going on with underaged Charlotte (Denise Tantucci) and her fascination with a married man?  It skips forward twice - covering events both five years later and then ten - before methodically granting all of its inhabitants complete closure and sealing it with a dainty bow.  Queue up the dancers, I guess we're done here....