Where it was filmed 'Three Goodbyes'

Based on Michela Murgia’s book, Tre Ciotole, Three Goodbyes by Spanish director Isabel Coixet, who co-wrote the screenplay with Enrico Audenino, stars Elio Germano and Alba Rohrwacher and features Silvia D'amico, Galatea Bellugi, Francesco Carril, Sarita Choudhury.

The film starts as Marta (Alba Rohrwacher) and Antonio (Elio Germano) split up, and moves through all the phases of human relationships, comprising the ups and downs, the fears, the uncertainties.

Marta suffers in silence as she relives her breakup with Antonio, vomiting constantly all the while. Antonio believes he no longer loves Marta, yet every corner of Rome, every square, each supplì, every place he goes sparks memories of her, and little by little, he realizes he has never stopped loving her.

Filming for Three Goodbyes, which began in March 2025, took place in the capital, in the historic neighborhoods of Testaccio and Trastevere.

‘Three Goodbyes’ - locations in Trastevere

Trastevere is the setting for numerous sequences, in particular viale Trastevere at the height of piazza Mastai, where the exterior of Marta's apartment is located. The apartment balcony has a view over this side of the neighbourhood, while the other side of the main street is seen in various sequences, including when Marta walks into her building, and when she cycles past the former hospital of San Gallicano in nearby via di San Gallicano.

Nearby, at the intersection of via Cardinale Merry del Val and via di San Francesco a Ripa, Marta meets Silvia (Galatea Bellugi), Antonio's colleague and friend, with whom she stops to chat in a café.

Marta cycles along the platform of Porto di Ripa Grande, in front of the San Michele complex, and then down nearby via di Porta Portese near largo Ascianghi, home to Nuovo Sacher Cinema, owned by Nanni Moretti. Opposite, the former Casa della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio in Trastevere, designed by Luigi Moretti, provides a location for Marta and Elisa to discuss relationships and betrayal during the inauguration of a contemporary art exhibition.

As the plot unfolds, Marta rediscovers the joy of small things: she eats ice cream, sitting in front of the medieval porch of the church that gives its name to piazza San Cosimato. Behind her, the backdrop to the scene, is the fountain of the Diver with mosaic by Silvia Codignola (2006).

Centrale Montemartini Museum and the Ostiense neighborhood

An evocative sequence in the film shows the shrines (the Madonnelle) embedded in buildings that protect intersections and seem to "spy" on the lives of passers-by. The fountain of the Mascherone, located halfway down via Giulia, is seen in a scene featuring Marta and her thoughts.

Silvia accompanies Antonio to many places including historic establishments, such as the Antica Libreria Cascianelli in largo Febo, just behind piazza Navona, and the Biondo Tevere restaurant on via Ostiense.

Also on via Ostiense, where the Gasometer is visible in a scene, is the Centrale Montemartini Museum which Antonio visits with Silvia, where he has romantic memories with Marta. The museum also featured in Ferzan Özpetek's The Ignorant Fairies (2001) as the setting of a seduction scene with Margherita Buy and Andrea Renzi.

The Tiber river is omnipresent, flowing alongside Trastevere and below the ponte Emilio (or ponte Rotto), which collapsed after flooding in December 24, 1598.  A few steps from the bridge, Antonio and Marta meet on the riverbank near Isola Tiberina for the film's most intense embrace.

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