The Next 365 Days

The Next 365 Days

Laura and Massimo's relationship hangs in the balance as they try to overcome trust issues while a tenacious Nacho works to push them apart.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Stars: Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone, Magdalena Lamparska, Simone Susinna, Otar Saralidze, Ewa Kasprzyk, Dariusz Jakubowski, Ramón Langa, Tomasz Mandes, Natalia Siwiec, Karolina Pisarek, Rafał Iwaniuk, Robert Zdebski, Paulina Mabiala, Max Umer, Danilo Susinna, Blanka Lipińska, Ewa Lewandowska, Piotr Mandes, Andrzej Bakowski, Safi El Masri
  • Director: Barbara Bialowas, Tomasz Mandes
 Comments
  • thomhouse - 17 November 2022
    More Massimo, Less Sedated Gardener Please
    This is my first ever movie review but I had to write in after being so utterly disappointed by The Next 365 Days.

    Ok, so first of all, I am a female. And I think I speak for my gender when I say that we showed up to see Massimo - gorgeous, brooding Massimo. Passionate, intense, fire-breathing Massimo. I would watch Massimo all day long. I would watch an entire scene of Massimo folding laundry, and then yelling at Domenicko for forgetting to separate the whites from the darks and starching his nice linens. (I TOLD YOU TO REMEMBER THE FABRIC SOFTENER!!)

    And why do I want to see Massimo? Because I am a woman. But this movie doesn't cater to women. In this movie, Laura' attentions are distracted from her hot, passionate, quick-tempered husband and onto...a man who has CLEARLY taken a sedative with breakfast every morning. Should he even be allowed on a surfboard with all that Xanax and phenobarbital coursing through his veins? Can he please WAKE UP, SPEAK UP and stop adoring Laura so sweetly, and let her get back to her hot husband already?

    So, if in the first movie, we got all heat and passion. In the second movie, we got soft-core pornography (Netflix...who knew?) and then the last half of the movie was like one of the Star Wars installments where Ray was stuck on the island and the story neither progressed nor mattered.

    And then, I was hopeful for the third installment. And what did I get? The Real Housewives of Sicily. Massimo is playing angry tennis in his immaculate tennis whites. Laura is focused on building her brand of bespoke women's wear. Throw in a love triangle with a lethargic romantic rival and now we have a movie that bears little resemblance to the first one.

    This movie left us on a cliffhanger that already belies the personality of its main character. Passionate, rage-soaked Massimo - who spent the first movie clutching and constraining the woman of his dreams - now looks limply out onto the ocean and cites Richard Bach.

    We don't know who Laura will pick. Can Laura pick Massimo PLEASE? And then, filmmakers, can you give us some more of this man? There is no shortage of storylines about mafia men. HBO made SIX seasons of the Sopranos. Surely you can come up with a storyline that will hold the sexual tension of these characters and restore Massimo to his original, lion-taming greatness. Which is what we all came to see.