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‘The Next 365 Days’ Review: For Masochists Only – and Not the Sexy Kind

The third go-round in Netflix's moronic Polish bonkfest reduces a once proudly yuck premise to a limp love triangle between deeply boring hotties.

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In a shocking abrogation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — at least as it pertains to film critics — a mere 114 days has elapsed between Barbara Białowas and Tomasz Mandes ‘ two sequels to their 2020 Netflix -busting softcore phenom, “365 Days.” So just a few scant months after “365 Days: This Day” left us in a swirl of Steadicam and a hail of bullets, here’s “ The Next 365 Days ,” plunging the series’ fans, and its contractually obliged observers, back into the lightly kink-dusted erotic adventures of Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) and Massimo (Michele Morrone), the streaming era’s favorite oversexed, underclad rape-apologist couple. What a time to be alive.

In truth, the shortness of that window is a blessing, given the third film optimistically expects us to remember what happened in the second — beyond there being an evil twin, a blisteringly attractive gardener called Nacho (Simone Sussina) and a comical climactic shootout — and therefore to be mildly taken in by the fake-out beginning. Once again we’re teased with tiny ninny Laura’s possible death, as Massimo, her hulking mafioso kidnapper-husband, grieves at a gravestone obscured by his ludicrously broad shoulders (straining at a jacket which, as ever with Piotr Koncki’s costume design, walks a dangerous line between being tailored to a sculptural tightness, and simply being a bit too small). Meanwhile Olga (Magdalena Lamparska), a pair of designer sunglasses with a person attached, sobs about missing her bestie Laura while trying on a wedding dress: She’s is now engaged to Domenico (Otar Saralidze), Massimo’s consigliere, do keep up.

Nacho, who absconded with Laura, aka “baby girl” (still ick), in episode two and was then revealed to be the scion of another Sicilian gangster clan, attends a post-bloodbath parlay with Massimo. The two alpha-smokeshow rivals glower at each other, the ridges of their bestubbled jaws twitching like fissures on the unstable slopes of Mt. Vesuvius just before it engulfed Pompeii. The prospect of this rumbling feud erupting into violence is a tantalizing one: Given the physical fitness and gorgeousness of all concerned it would be devastating but also extremely hot, rather like Abercrombie declaring war on Fitch.

Sadly, no such conflagration occurs. Instead, late on, in the series’ one truly surprising and cherishable moment, Białowas and Mandes finally give the horned-up audience what it really wants: Nacho and Massimo kissing. Not to suggest that these few seconds of guy-on-guy fantasy action (1:29:10 if you just want to skip straight there) justify the existence of the whole trilogy, but it sure does put all the coy titillations of the movie’s hetero lovemaking in perspective. Except for a weird nightclub/gimp-mask sequence, and this imaginary threesome, the sex scenes this time are tediously vanilla, and nothing holds a candle to episode two’s putting-green orgasm for sheer comedy.

Because, of course, the two musclebound thirst-traps are not mourning Laura at all. Baby girl and, more importantly, baby girl’s libido have recovered from her gunshot wound, and now she’s ready to get back to full-time writhing duties atop her brooding hubs. The only wrinkle is that occasionally, while engaged in one of her curiously anhydrous romps with Massimo, she fantasizes about Nacho. And who can blame her? As fine as Morrone is, he’s only given “smolder” to play, where Sussina gets to flash his dazzling smile while also fixing the camera with a gaze that could crisp up a rosemary and black olive focaccia at twenty paces.

These are the astronomical stakes of “The Next 365 Days”: Should Laura be with Massimo or Nacho? One wants to ball her in the Mediterranean, the other wants “to meditate with her in Bali.” Tomasz Mandes and Mojca Tirš, co-writing with the books’ author Blanka Lipinska, already distanced “This Day” from the original film’s queasy rapiness, but now seem eager to engineer a full 180. Given the ultra-sensitive, ribbed-for-her-pleasure alternative offered by Nacho, also a mafia boss but one who surfs and has unambiguously consensual candlelit beachside sex, Laura is finally working out that maybe the guy who kidnapped and sexually enslaved her and now jealously monitors her every move is not the prince she Stockholmed herself into believing he was. It took three movies, a failing mafia marriage, getting shot, a lost pregnancy, a car crash and the patient, undying affections of an even hotter, even richer guy, but whatever. Go feminism.

It’s not just the plotting that feels bone-tired this time out. The design departments seem underslept too: the outfits are ho-hum, even those at the atelier Laura sometimes remembers she runs. The al fresco dining areas and nightclub scenes during which Olga’s evident full-blown alcoholism is constantly played for klutzy laughs, are entirely interchangeable. And once you’ve seen one dramatic sky skidding off the infinity pool of a modernist villa at dusk, you’ve seen ’em all. Furthermore, we’re used to the oddly inflected, non-native English dialogue (“The plane is to your disposal,” “This white shit replaced me”) but now even the bikini-waxed images from franchise DP Bartek Cielica come across as gauzily inattentive. During one would-be dramatic confrontation between Laura and Massimo, it’s hard not to be distracted by the handprints on the glass rooftop railing between them that glint greasily in the lens flare.

Indeed, the only contributors who don’t appear completely tapped out by the end of “The Next 365 Days” are those with arguably the most reason to be. Composers Patryk Kumór and Dominic Buczkowski-Woytaszek pen a Herculean 25 original soft-rock ballads for the soundtrack, many of which play out for a couple of minutes or more, because that’s how much of this movie takes place in slo-mo montage. Granted, the songs are 100% indistinguishable and all the lyrics appear written by the same algorithm that generates the dialogue: Who knows what to make of a sex scene scored to a gravel-voiced chorus of “Fuck society?” Still, 25!

But just because almost everyone’s exhausted by this crummy cash-cow franchise, doesn’t mean the franchise is exhausted in turn. The hope that “The Next 365 Days” will be the last “365 Days” merely because it’s based on the final book is a slim one, especially given how it ends, on a question left infuriatingly dangling, with only a wailing rawk crescendo and a deranged camera doing infinity loops around the two stars for resolution. “I need more time,” Laura husks repeatedly, to Nacho, to Massimo, to Olga and to the warm wind tousling her hair. Though she’s referring to her deeply uninvolving romantic dilemma, it’s hard not to hear her speaking with the wistful voice of the Netflix accountancy department, as they, and they alone, offer up a prayer that there might be many more “365 Days” to come.

Reviewed on Netflix, Aug. 19, 2022. Running time: 114 MIN. (Original title: "Kolejne 365 Dni")

• Production: (Poland) A Netflix release of an Ekipa, Open Mind One production. Producers: Ewa Lewandowska, Tomasz Mandes, Maciej Kawulski.
• Crew: Directors: Barbara Białowas, Tomasz Mandes. Screenplay: Mojca Tirš, Blanka Lipińska, Tomasz Mandes, based on the book series by Lipińska. Camera: Bartek Cielica. Editor: Marcin Drewnowski. Music: Patryk Kumór, Dominic Buczkowski-Woytaszek.
• With: Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone, Simone Susinna, Magdalena Lamparska, Otar Saralidze, Karolina Pisarek, Ewa Kasprzyk, Dariusz Jacubowski. (English, ​​Polish, Italian dialogue)

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'The Next 365 Days' Trailer Promises More Drama in Laura and Massimo's Story

"Look at you. Look at me. There's no us."

Netflix has just released the scintillating new trailer for The Next 365 Days , the latest sequel in the erotic film series based on a book series by Blanka Lipińska . The Next 365 Days will be released exclusively Netflix on August 19, 2022.

The new trailer, released today, shows the evolution of Laura and Massimo's relationship as it hangs in a very precarious balance. All the while Nacho is trying to push them further apart. Cast with strobing lights and glowing poolside talks, the trailer plays into the glamorous world that the film's characters occupy. The new trailer shows the intrigue we can expect in the third installment of the 365 Days series.

The film follows 365 Days: This Day , which was released to Netflix earlier this year, and 2020's 365 Days. All the films are Polish language and are released to both Poland and the United States' Netflix streaming service. The 365 Days series tells the story of a Sicilian crime family and the evolving romance of Laura and Massimo, a young man forced to take over the helm of power after his father was assassinated.

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The second film began with Laura and Massimo getting married. However, soon Laura's attentions wander to the 'gardener', Nacho. The Next 365 Days continues the love triangle, intensifying tensions between the couple. The film is directed by Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes . The screenplay was written by Tomasz Klimala , Białowąs, Mandes, and the author of the original novel series, Lipińska.

The Next 365 Days stars Michele Morrone as Don Massimo Torricelli, Anna-Maria Sieklucka as Laura Biel, and Magdalena Lamparska as Olga. 365 Days , the first book in Lipińska's series, was originally published in 2018. The books, like the films, are erotic thrillers that explore desire within a highly privileged and extremely dangerous world.

The film is also one of many international projects coming to Netflix. The streaming platform has seen an increase in international projects, with big payoffs. The South Korean series Squid Game has become almost ubiquitous in its success. Netflix has since announced a reality competition show that will mimic the original series, which seems to have missed the point of the original series almost entirely, but why not run with a good thing?

But as you anticipate more Squid Game , you can always cool down (or heat up?) by checking out The Next 365 Days on Netflix starting August 19, 2022. Until then, you can check out the new trailer below.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Next 365 Days’ on Netflix, the Turgid Third Movie in the Polish Sex Saga

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It slogs on: The Next 365 Days is the third movie in the turgid erotic Polish/shot-in-Italy/mostly-English-language mess of a Netflix franchise, and considering that ending, it’s probably not the last. So one assumes they’re cheap enough to make and successful enough in viewership numbers to justify their existence, in spite of the glaringly obvious fact that they’re objectively abominable in their barely written, ethically queasy, utterly vacuous, theoretically “sexy” kind of way. They’re quite distinctive in their badness, putting them in a subcategory below prurient dreck like the Fifty Shades series, post- Basic Instinct preposterous thrillers and Nickelback videos. So mayhaps it’s wise to divorce analysis of these movies from the whole of the filmmaking art, and stick to intra-franchise comparisons: Is it possible that The Next 365 Days is even worse than the previous two?

THE NEXT 365 DAYS : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: Before we get too deep here (phrasing), we need to recap the ending of 365 Days: This Day : The marital “bliss” between rich and rapey gangster Massimo (Michele Morrone) and quasi-slave-wife Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) went all topsy-turvy when she thought he was cheating on her – but it turns out the man she saw fornicating with another woman was actually Massimo’s (gasp) twin brother. She GTFO’d and started hanging out with another hunky slab of muscle named Nacho (Simone Sussina), who masqueraded as Massimo’s gardener but was actually the son of Massimo’s gangster rival. You may recall that Laura and Nacho never had sex, because their sex scenes were just her PRIMAL FANTASIES. And then the movie concluded with an incomprehensible shootout in which Massimo’s twin died and Laura took a bullet to the abdomen. Consider that cliff totally hanged!

In other words, I’m here to inform you that the end of This Day was not, as you may have initially suspected, a hallucination.

So, on to The Next : We pick up as Massimo and his men meet with Nacho and his men and they glower at each other for a while before gabbing about continuing an ugly, bloody gang war. They come to a truce, and if this isn’t immediately prevalent due to the garbled, confusing ESL dialogue, one eventually figures it out, since there are no more shootouts or assassinations in the movie. Massimo visits a grave – and it’s not Laura’s!!!1!1!!!!1! It’s his brother’s. He goes home and Laura is very much alive, and also horny. (Perhaps you’ve noticed that everyone in this movie series is permanently horny.) But Massimo reminds her that the doctor says no schtupping until she’s all healed up, so instead of getting a sex scene after the first five minutes of the movie, we have to wait five more.

I’m already blowing my word count summing up the first five minutes, but that’s really not an issue, because the remaining 108 are a plot wasteland. OK, so Laura and Massimo bang, but then the marriage hits the rocks and she throws herself into “work” – you may recall, in the previous movie Massimo bought her a clothing-design company which she never bothered to have anything to do with until now. She and her bestie Olga (Magdalena Lamparska) hang out. In lieu of rutting with Massimo, she enjoys soggy Nacho fantasies, just like I do when I’m on a diet! (That’s the last of the too-easy Nacho jokes, promise.) Massimo goes to gangster parties with coke and hookers, and I think he remains faithful; it’s hard to tell when you’re watching a random collection of shots of bare chests and butts and breasts in various iterations of sexual congress. Laura and Olga go to Lagos for a fashion thingy and wouldn’t you know it, Nacho is f—ing there. Is this COINCIDENCE, or just FATE? Moot point, because either way, Laura’s at a crossroads – does she commit her genitals to this gangster or that other gangster? Who will she choo-choo-choose? NO SPOILERS.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: They should’ve made 50 50 Shades movies (they still could!), and they should make 365 365 Days movies.

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Memorable Dialogue: This is the fun part! A choice monologue from Laura: “When I got shot, our relationship almost died with me. I was trying to save it, and you, you were speculating and diving into your dark limbo, which I was not allowed to enter. Now I’m in my own limbo.”

Please allow me to translate: Their relationship would’ve died if she had died, no question about it. She was trying to save either her life or their relationship, not sure which, although they’re very much connected, so I guess it doesn’t matter. He dived into a dark limbo, which is like a pool with a hard plastic cover that Massimo put on it after he dived into it, because Laura subsequently couldn’t dive into it. And now she has her own pool! And married people should be sharing a dark-limbo pool, not diving into their own individual dark-limbo pools.

Sex and Skin: The usual frequent softcore one-on-ones, but this movie throws in an orgy or two to spice the broth. Still no schlongs in the frame, though!

Our Take: Talk about your dark-limbo pools. If ever a movie was a metaphorical dark-limbo pool, it’s The Next 365 Days . The latest chapter in the quaggy eroto-saga of Laura and Massimo is DOA nearly all the way – “nearly” because it drops in a real hell of a hoot of a howler of a third-act dream sequence that’s a brief bit of audacity before resuming the movie’s dreary cycle of montages, Olga’s godawful comic relief, ponderous images of Laura brooding and smarmy-smeary sex scenes, all rife with mondo-mutilated English dialogue and set to an incessant and interminable downtempo dreck-rock soundtrack. (Hot tip: Turn on the subtitles, and subject yourself to the dismal song lyrics!)

So, you may ask, what makes it any different to the previous 365 Days es? At least the first movie’s gross misogyny made us feel something – most likely sick to our stomachs – and 365 Days: This Day was laughably nutty with its lobotomized soap opera twists. The Next 365 Days is a flat-out crushing, crashing, smashing, staggering bore. If you’re here for the sex scenes – and who isn’t? – let it be known that directors Barabara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes could’ve cut in the same schtup-sequences from the previous movies and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. (Did the light glint off Sussina’s buttcrack hair so poetically in the last movie as it does here? Probably!) The movie trudges along slowly and repetitively until reaching an unconclusion that might be frustrating if we were at all invested in Laura’s inner conflict. Netflix sure seems to be banking on piqued interest for The Next 365 Days After the Last 365 Days , because this one sure leaves us hanging and dangling like, I dunno, like something that hangs and dangles that these movies make us think about, but never shows us.

Our Call: Yes, The Next 365 Days is worse than the other two movies. Hard to believe, but it’s true. SKIP IT with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.

John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read more of his work at johnserbaatlarge.com .

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365 Days 4 rumors and everything that’s been said about a potential fourth film

By cody schultz | mar 21, 2024, 4:37 pm edt.

Over the years, Netflix has launched a number of successful movie franchises. Among the streaming service’s biggest international hits has been the  365 Days  movies based on Blanka Lipinska’s successful book franchise.

No one could have predicted the success the first film would enjoy following its release on Netflix in early 2020. The movie became the most-watched Netflix original movie in 2020 and Netflix was quick to greenlight a pair of follow-up films inspired by the second and third book in the franchise.

Those two films would arrive on Netflix in 2022 and earned similar raving reviews from fans who couldn’t get enough of the franchise and its stunning leading man , who quickly stole audiences’ hearts.

Since the release of the third film in August 2022, audiences have been eager for more and it seems they’re not the only ones!

365 Days 4 has yet to been confirmed by Netflix

Netflix is notorious for developing projects under the radar, so there is a chance that Netflix could have had conversations with the creative team behind the franchise about a potential fourth movie. However, at this time, Netflix has not yet announced a fourth film in the 365 Days franchise which means it’s unclear whether a fourth film could be in development or even be being discussed by Netflix.

The films were based on a book trilogy and each of the first three movies followed the events of the books they were inspired by. This means that in order to do a fourth film, the creative team would have to come up with a story that is not based on sourced material directly. This could complicate the odds of a fourth movie happening, as the first three movies did tell a pretty complete story.

However, that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of this franchise or its characters.

Everything that’s been teased about 365 Days 4

While Netflix has not announced plans for a fourth movie in the franchise, there have been some not-so-subtle teases from those close to the film about the possibility of another film happening. In fact,  the franchise’s leading man Michele Morrone has made it very clear he’d be open to revisiting the character of Massimo Torricelli.

Days after the release of  The Next 365 Days  on August 19, Morrone took to Instagram with a very cryptic Instagram post that seemed to suggest that there could be more to Massimo’s story!

“The end of something is always a little bit sad.. but.. who knows…,” Morrone teased fans hinting that this might not be a goodbye but rather a “until next time” moment. Surprisingly, he’s not teased anything else about a fourth film since that cryptic Instagram post, but fans continue to flock to the post to share their hopes of seeing more from the character.

In addition to Morrone teasing the possibility of a fourth film, 365 Days author Blanka Lipinska has also shared sentiments over not being ready to say goodbye to these characters — particularly Massimo.

Following the release of the third film, Lipinska revealed to  TODAY   that she was planning on revisiting the story but this time through the eyes of Massimo directly. As Lipinska revealed, she hopes to revisit “the story from the beginning. But this time from the perspective of Massimo.”

There have not been any updates on the progress of this project and whether Lipinska is actively developing a new book from Massimo’s perspective but this approach has worked well for other authors in the past such as how Stephenie Meyer used Midnight Sun  to return to the Twilight series in revisiting the story but this time told through Edward’s POV.

Given the desire to revisit the story through Massimo’s perspective, there is a chance Netflix could be working with Lipinska to develop a fourth movie that could revisit the events from the first movie but this time through Massimo’s perspective. This could be an interesting approach to continuing the franchise fans love in a way that we haven’t seen before in the medium.

Netflix never billed 365 Days as the final film in the franchise

Adding an additional level of intrigue to the mystery of whether a fourth film might someday happen is the fact that Netflix was very coy in not promoting the third film in the franchise,  The Next 365 Days,  as the final film in the franchise.

Across the branding for the film including its official YouTube trailer and in official media from Netflix, the movie is never promoted as the final chapter in the series. Typically, when a franchise is coming to an official end, brands such as Netflix will highly promote the film or last season of the show as a final entry with its promotional efforts.

The fact that Netflix opted not to splash terms like “the final chapter” across its posters and when promoting the movie is intriguing. Instead, they simply billed the film as “the next installment” which seems to have left the door open for a potential return to the franchise.

Fans really want 365 Days 4 to happen

If there is one thing that is true, it’s that fans really want to see 365 Days 4 become a reality! Since the release of the third film in the franchise, fans remain eager for additional information about a potential fourth film which had led to several viral posts on social media.

This summer, a series of Facebook posts went viral when Influencer pages posted about the potential fourth film announcing that “365 Days 4 was coming soon” via Netflix-inspired graphics. As What’s On Netflix noted , the nature of the Facebook posts was questionable in framing the rumors as reports across several pages including a Facebook page called “Netflix Daily Updates” which, ironically, What’s on Netflix purchased this fall after Netflix Life severed ties with the page and others due to the false framing of their Facebook reports.

Still, if there was anything the viral nature of the Facebook posts proved, it’s that fans really want to see a fourth film in the franchise!

“I just wish it never ends just keep them coming,” shared one fan eager for more from the hit franchise. “Get the wine, get the Aldi cheese board!” another excited fan excitedly told their friend when discussing the possibility of another film.

Most, though, just are eager for the potential of more Massimo with the running theme among fans on social media being best summed up by one fan, “I’m most exited to see Masimo again!”

Clearly there is an interest among Netflix fans for another film. Let’s just hope that Netflix takes note of the fans’ desire for more from the franchise and revisits the franchise via a fourth film!

As soon as news comes out about the fourth film, we’ll be sure to update you. In the meantime, you can enjoy the  365 Days  trilogy on Netflix !

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A man is drugged, stripped; photos are taken of him having sex with buxom woman. Breasts shown. Wealthy man unzips his pants, demands oral sex from flight attendant on his private jet (seems to be forcing her, especially given that he's her employer, but later she's seen with hint of smile, suggesting she enjoyed being dominated). Photographs indicate a man has seemingly cheated on his girlfriend, but that is later called into question. Kidnap victim finds her kidnapper sleeping next to her shirtless, feels attracted to him. They get naked in shower. He asks why she's staring at his penis, if she wants to touch it. She touches his buttocks but leaves the shower. He grabs her by the neck. She is later forced onto an airplane, tied up in her seat. Her captor touches her nipple through her shirt, without permission, puts his hand into her pants. She seems aroused. A man throws a woman onto his bed, binds her hand and foot, has another woman give him oral sex in front of her. She's naked under her bathrobe; one breast shows. Kidnap victim seems to willingly submit to her captor; they have mutually pleasurable sex in many positions: oral sex, he kisses and touches her breasts, they alternate who's on top, her legs around his neck. He comes in from behind, spits on his hand, suggesting anal sex may be involved. No genitals shown. Sex against window of a high-rise, on deck of yacht. Describing her boyfriend's penis, Laura says "the devil" molded it.

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"F--k," "s--t," "ass," "d--k," "piss," "hell," "damn," "balls," "scumbag," and "wop."

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Cocaine is mentioned. A man is drugged and stripped, then photos are taken of him having sex with a woman. A woman is drugged and kidnapped. Adults drink alcohol to excess. Adults smoke cigarettes.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that 365 Days is a 2020 erotic film in Polish, Italian, and English (with English subtitles). Its popularity has raised the question on social media regarding whether the movie's graphic sex scenes record actors actually having sex. The story is based on the Polish trilogy 365 dni by Blanka Lipinska. A handsome gangster glimpses a woman and then spends years searching the world for her. When he finds her, he kidnaps the woman, locks her away, and "gives" her a year to fall in love with him. Lots of lustful looks and touches precede all-out sex, including a scene in which he chains her to a bed while another woman gives him oral sex. No genitals are shown, but the movie offers many graphic sex scenes with bared breasts and bottoms, and a number of positions from the Kama Sutra and other sexual how-to manuals. While fans of titillation will find much to enjoy here, the message is a dangerous one: that when overpowering men are involved, women say "no" but mean "yes." A few murders are thrown in on the side, and language includes "f--k," "s--t," "ass," "d--k," "piss," "hell," "damn," and "wop." Characters smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol to excess. Cocaine is mentioned, as is sex trafficking of young girls. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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Disgusting mockery of fun

What's the story.

In 365 DAYS, Massimo (Michele Morrone, a model, actor, and singer who contributed songs to the soundtrack) is a tall, handsome, and brooding Sicilian gangster whose father was shot in front of his eyes. At that moment, he glimpsed Laura (Anna Maria Sieklucka) and became obsessed with finding her and making her fall in love with him. When he locates her, instead of wooing her, he drugs and kidnaps her, imprisons her, and tells her she has 365 days to fall in love with him. If she doesn't, he will let her go. She struggles to escape and he violently stops her, at times putting his large hand gruffly around her neck to keep her from running. He ominously warns her, "Don't provoke me," and notes that he doesn't tolerate "disobedience," suggesting that in his view, a kidnap victim ought to buckle to his orders and desires. At the same time, he "gallantly" promises never to do anything sexual without her permission, and then puts his hand on her breast and later slips his hand down her pants while she's tied up. Laura is a bundle of contradictions herself, walking around naked to tease him but also adamantly resistant to his advances. She tries to escape but is thwarted by bodyguards and police on the take. Eventually, she gives in to her lust for the towering Massimo, suggesting that, for all their protestations, women just want to be dominated by gruff alpha males. The film ends abruptly with a planned, unexplained murder, paving the way for a sequel.

Is It Any Good?

Although weirdly entertaining in its own sleazy way, this is an adolescent boy's dream about what women want, a sexual fantasy to "prove" that women who say "no" really mean "yes." Poorly written and largely ridiculous in its attempt to portray human character (and in its blatant rip-off of Fifty Shades of Grey and nod to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), 365 Days will nevertheless titillate those patient enough to wade through terrible dialogue and senseless plot to get to the erotica. Given that Netflix deems two minutes of watching time an official "view," it's possible that many are skipping to erotic scenes without watching the self-important rot in between.

The gangster seemingly proves his nobility when he promises he'll never do anything without Laura's permission, but then promptly puts one hand on her breast and the other around her neck as she tries to writhe away. Uh, perhaps it's time to revisit the definition of "permission"? Most extraordinary and blatantly misogynist are sympathetic nods by Massimo's friends to how difficult Laura is, as if experienced and knowing men of the world are often forced to tolerate temperamental women, ignoring completely that Laura's contrariness isn't a sign of diva tendencies, but rather the normal response of someone trying to run from her captor. That Laura flaunts her sexuality in front of Massimo might imply she's asserting her power, but it reads as if the movie believes women are teases who want to "succumb" to powerful men, providing ammunition for men who argue that women just want to be treated roughly and dominated. At least the 1993 film Indecent Proposal used money to incentivize a woman's sexual surrender to unwanted male attention rather than suggesting that women are turned on by domineering and brutal men who take what they want.

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Movie Details

• In theaters : February 7, 2020
• On DVD or streaming : June 7, 2020
• Cast : Michele Morrone , Anna Maria Sieklucka , Magdalena Lamparska
• Director : Barbara Bialowas. Tomasz Mandes
• Studio : Netflix
• Genre : Drama
• Run time : 114 minutes
• MPAA rating : NR
• Last updated : February 18, 2023

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Massimo is a member of the Sicilian Mafia family and Laura is a sales director. She does not expect that on a trip to Sicily trying to save her relationship, Massimo will kidnap her and give... Read all Massimo is a member of the Sicilian Mafia family and Laura is a sales director. She does not expect that on a trip to Sicily trying to save her relationship, Massimo will kidnap her and give her 365 days to fall in love with him. Massimo is a member of the Sicilian Mafia family and Laura is a sales director. She does not expect that on a trip to Sicily trying to save her relationship, Massimo will kidnap her and give her 365 days to fall in love with him.

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• Trivia Writer Blanka Lipinska revealed that the shot where lead actor Michele Morrone spits into the private parts of the actress playing Laura during sexual intercourse was cut from prior versions of the film and was only re-instated after she asked for it to be put back in. She said it was "a very popular gesture in Poland" for couples.

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By Mike Hale

The British television writer Sally Wainwright may not be a household name in the United States, but for more than a decade she has been turning out television shows whose variety and consistently high quality few writer-producers can match.

“Scott & Bailey,” which premiered in 2011, was a smart, tart buddy-detective procedural . The blended-families drama “Last Tango in Halifax” (2012) was finely tooled, irresistible hokum , reflecting the lessons Wainwright learned during her tenure on the venerable soap opera “Coronation Street.” She raised her game with “Happy Valley” (2014), a terrific series about the intertwined work and home lives of a doggedly heroic policewoman. And she segued into costume drama with “Gentleman Jack” (2019), a fact-based Victorian saga of lesbian romance and financial maneuvering that was, like the others, well made, well acted and highly engaging.

The shows have a couple of through lines. They all take place in or near Wainwright’s home ground of Yorkshire, in northern England. And they all focus on tough, take-charge women — often women whose commitment to what they know or think is right can make them a little hard to live with.

Wainwright’s latest show, “Renegade Nell,” whose eight episodes premiered Friday on Disney+, takes her down some new paths. The action moves south, toward London (it was filmed in Oxfordshire), and further back in time, to the early 1700s. And in a significant departure, Wainwright dabbles in the supernatural: Her heroine, the commoner Nell Jackson, can summon otherworldly strength and agility to battle the black magic wielded by her higher-born foes.

Nell, played by Louisa Harland of “Derry Girls,” is another Wainwright heroine who must learn how to harness her strength and high spirits, and not do collateral damage to her family and friends. (She gets called “unnatural,” an epithet also applied to the protagonist of “Gentleman Jack” when she acts in ways women are not supposed to.) Nell’s challenge is greater, though, because the strength is so unexpected. Stumbling upon a stagecoach robbery, she is about to be shot when a tiny light appears and gives her ruffian-bashing, bullet-dodging capabilities.

The light turns out to be a winged humanoid named Billy, played by Nick Mohammed of “Ted Lasso,” who returns to bail out Nell whenever she is in danger (though not always as promptly as she would like). And she is in danger a lot: Her new powers, combined with some complicated and tragic circumstances, turn her into a fugitive suspected of multiple murders and eventually put her in the unlikely position of saving the British crown from a Jacobite invasion. (Thematically, it’s helpful for Wainwright that the actual monarch at the time, who faced an actual coup attempt, was a woman, Queen Anne, played in the show with an arch sang-froid by Jodhi May.)

It is worth mentioning here that “Renegade Nell” is a comedy, and that various traditions of British comedy figure heavily in how it looks and feels. It’s like a gender-switched “The Beggar’s Opera” (the most famous play of the show’s time period), with a male highwayman, Devereux (Frank Dillane), as the female lead’s comic foil. It borrows from the picaresque novels of the 18th century, as Nell and a ragtag band that includes her two sisters (Bo Bragason and Florence Keen), a resourceful stablehand (Ényì Okoronkwo) and Devereux bounce around the countryside getting into and out of alarming scrapes.

And hanging in the background is Shakespeare. There are references to “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King John,” and Billy is an Ariel-like sprite who speculates that his partnership with Nell is meant to restore balance to the world, which would be in the best traditions of Shakespearean comedy.

Billy must speculate because neither he nor Nell has any idea why they have been brought together, and the audience does not know what Billy is or where he comes from.

Perhaps we will get this information if a second season materializes; in the meantime, its lack contributes to a general fuzziness at the show’s center. Wainwright’s skill at moving the characters around and putting pithy dialogue in their mouths makes “Renegade Nell” very enjoyable from moment to moment, and most of the performers — particularly Keen, as the youngest sister, and Dillane — draw you in.

But as the season moves along, and the metaphor of magic as social and political power becomes more obvious — enabling Nell while it corrupts the aristocratic schemers ably played by Adrian Lester and Alice Kremelberg — the show doesn’t solidify its hold on your emotions. And the comedy, while reasonably deft, remains on a low boil.

Like a lot of period pieces these days, the show is amusing, intelligent and very well executed, and it shrewdly exploits its comic and magical elements to get away with audience-friendly anachronisms of language, behavior and casting. The corollary, and perhaps the consequence, is that it feels like an exceedingly clever card trick — well worth the “Ooh,” but unlikely to linger in the mind.

Mike Hale is a television critic for The Times. He also writes about online video, film and media. More about Mike Hale

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