Paolo Genovese presented “Il rumore delle cose nuove” to journalists in Naples on 13 November 2026, according to ANSA and Il Mattino. The director described the film as an account of the “secrets of the soul” inside couple life.
The story traces relationships from early romantic enthusiasm to a later phase in which an apparently stable equilibrium proves fragile, according to Il Mattino. At that point, Genovese said, matters left unspoken come into the open.
Its central theme is what people withhold out of modesty, fear or a wish to protect their partners, according to Il Mattino and the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. Those omissions concern desires, lies and emotional truths that can fracture a relationship, according to Cineuropa.
The plot follows three unrelated couples whose carefully built emotional arrangements are reassuring but restrictive, according to the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. An unexpected event disrupts those arrangements and overturns them, according to the foundation and Cineuropa.
The ensemble cast includes Emanuela Fanelli, Claudia Pandolfi, Vittoria Puccini, Stefano Accorsi, Lino Musella, Edoardo Pesce and Claudio Santamaria, according to ANSA, Il Mattino and the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. Musella plays Ralph, a reserved and family-oriented cinema sound-effects artist, according to Repubblica.
The film was selected as the opening film of the twenty-first Rome Film Fest, according to the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. Its Italian theatrical release was scheduled for 12 November 2026 through 01 Distribution, according to Cineuropa and the foundation.
