In my opinion, this is Ozpetek's weakest film. It looks like he wanted to imitate Almodovar, but this is a very weak fake. One of the advantages is a good idea, a wonderful script and beautiful camerawork. Everything else is full of flaws: completely incompetent, empty dialogues, as if the characters have nothing to talk about with each other at all (including in the finale, when they go to meet each other for no reason), there are a lot of frankly drawn-out scenes when everything is clear from the first minute, and the scene lasts for minutes 10. Very weak acting work by Damiano Gavino (Enea) against the background of better work by Andrea Di Luigi
(Pietro). There are a lot of scenes with nudity, it is completely unclear why - they cause nothing but awkwardness and are essentially "antierotic", devoid of any poetry and real love passion. The main prize in the film (and 10 points) I would award a cameo role to Titti, beautifully played by Luisa Ranieri. In general, a very strange, almost helpless director's work, more a soap opera than a real drama.
Review of Nuovo Olimpo
