Three Floors

Three Floors (Tre piani) is a 2021 Italian drama film co-produced, co-written and directed by Nanni Moretti. It is based on the 2017 novel Shalosh Qomot by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, moving the setting from Tel Aviv to Rome, and also marking Moretti's first adaptation of the work of another artist.

It stars Margherita Buy, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alba Rohrwacher, Adriano Giannini, Elena Lietti, Alessandro Sperduti, Denise Tantucci and Moretti. It had its world premiere at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on 11 July 2021. It is scheduled to be released in Italy on 23 September 2021 by 01 Distribution.

Plot
The story of three families living on different floors of the same middle-class apartment building.

Production
The shooting began on 4 March 2019 in Rome and lasted until May.

Release
Three Floors had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where it received a standing ovation of eleven minutes. The film was screened as a special presentation at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

Reception
Three Floors has an approval rating of 48% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews, and an average rating of 4.9/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Lacking the essential spark of director Nanni Moretti's best work, Three Floors does a dreary disservice to its laudable themes". Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".