Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Review of Nuovo Olimpo

Unexpectedly good Italian gay romantic drama, about two guys who meet in a cinema that's used for casual gay sex hook-ups, develop an intense connection that's not just about sex, and then lose contact because of a protest broken up by violent riot police...and the rest of the film is about the loss that affects both of their lives, and the lives of others that they touch. It's beautiful and well done (unlike a lot of Italian films that I've watched lately) and I didn't even mind that one of the two men is a film-maker...films about film-makers often piss me off.

Long but I still had a feeling that something had been cut from it without quite enough care...there were some character developments that didn't quite add up. Still, well worth watching...we watched on Netflix.

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