Watch L'ultimo paradiso (2021) online

...but if you fall, you crash. The Last Paradiso toys with some classics of the Italian neo realism, from Rossellini to Germi and De Sica but it's like playing with fire if you can't master the stuff. Young director Ricciardulli has taken up a task way above his skills and he gets it wrong on so many levels that it hurts: from a silly screenplay with carton-board dialogues to worn out clichés. But where he fails mostly is with the tone of voice of his movie, which swings randomly from tragic (in the crudely violent scenes of mafia) to sugary lighthearted (in the corny romance scenes) without finding a cohesive unity, and a good photography is not enough to save the day.