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Netflix's 'The Last Paradiso': Release date, plot, cast, trailer and all you need to know about the Italian romantic drama

Get ready for an Italian story full of passion and romance mixed with olive oil and politics
UPDATED FEB 4, 2021
Riccardo Scamarcio and Gaia Bermani Amaral in 'The Last Paradiso' (Netflix)
Riccardo Scamarcio and Gaia Bermani Amaral in 'The Last Paradiso' (Netflix)

If you want more of racy romantic dramas like ‘Bridgerton’ but also love the heat of rolling Italian landscapes, then ‘The Last Paradiso’ could well be your thing. Netflix describes the film as ‘the story of an impossible love, a dream of an indomitable man who has a sense of rebellion and justice coursing through his veins’ and the trailer doesn’t shy away from showing exactly that.

Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio (from 'John Wick: Chapter 2', 'The Summer House', 'The Woman in White') stars as Ciccio Paradiso, plus Gaia Bermani Amaral as his love interest Bianca, along with Valentina Cervi and Antonio Gerardi.Get ready for an Italian story full of passion and romance mixed with olive oil and politics.

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Plot

Based on real events, 'The Last Paradiso' is set during the post-war era of 1950s Italy and follows Ciccio Paradiso, a young, attractive, free spirit living in a sleepy Italian village. He's a hard-working laborer whose decision to chase his dreams of a better life stirs up trouble among the local people.

A still from 'The Last Paradiso' (YouTube/@Netflix)

Ciccio has a beef with the town mayor (Antonio Gerardi), who he says ‘doesn’t do shit and earns three times more’ than anyone else in the town. To make matters more (ahem!) complicated, the mayor has a beautiful daughter, Bianca with whom Ciccio starts a passionate love affair, often embracing hidden away in some barn somewhere, where Bianca worries what her father will think.

However, things really start to go downhill when Ciccio directly challenges the mayor’s economic control, promising to pay more fairly for olives than the mayor does, thus making himself a powerful enemy.

Riccardo Scamarcio in a still from 'The Last Paradiso' (YouTube/@Netflix)

The rest of the trailer promises tense confrontations, dirty tactics and liberation, in a movie that promises violence, politics and steamy, secret meetings between lovers.

Cast

The main cast of the Italian film features Riccardo Scamarcio, Gaia Bermani Amaral, Valentina Cervi and Antonio Gerardi.

(L-R) Riccardo Scamarcio, Gaia Bermani Amaral, Valentina Cervi and Antonio Gerardi (Instagram/@riccardo_scamarcio, Facebook/@Gaia-Bermani-Amaral, Instagram/@valentina_cervi, Twitter/@agerardi68)

The cast also includes the voice of award-winning actor and writer Peter Arpesella, who has also lent his voice to films like ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ and ‘Letters to Juliet’, and actors Giovanni Cirfiera and Giuseppe Nardone.

Creators

‘The Last Paradiso’ has been directed by Rocco Ricciardulli. Riccardo-Scarmarcio joins him as co-writer.

Trailer

Haunted by his passion for Bianca and unwilling to compromise, he will pay dearly for his desire for freedom. For his people, he will become the symbol of a revolution that until then seemed impossible.



 

 
Where to watch?

‘The Last Paradiso’ releases on February 5, 2021, exclusively on Netflix. 

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