Cinema-Italia: A Flat for Three

Synopsis

One of Italy’s most popular contemporary filmmakers, Carlo Verdone returns to the screen with a kind of ODD COUPLE for the new millennium. Only now it’s three divorced men who decide to share an apartment together in Rome. All three are drifting towards uncertain futures while still stuck in unresolved pasts. One (Verdone) is a record collector lost in a world of classic rock; another (Pier Francesco Favino) is a former film critic reduced to writing gossip columns. The last (Marco Giallini) tries to sell real
estate as an excuse to meet women. Clearly a response to the economic and spiritual crisis gripping Italy, A FLAT FOR THREE is one of Verdone’s most sharply observed comedies. These housemates may not know how to solve their own problems, but each is full of ideas about how to help the other two.