365 Days

Lockdown hits like Tiger King were inescapable on social media, and a certain erotic thriller was too. Of course, we're talking about 365 Days, directed by ...

- Unfaithful This may not come as too much of a surprise, as the ending of the second movie established the potential for another sequel. Since its release, fans have been crying out for a sequel and it finally arrived in the form of 365 Days: This Day on Wednesday, April 27th 2022.

The film, directed by Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes, is based on one of Polish novelist Blanka Lipiska's profoundly sensuous bestselling novels. The hot ...

The next section will also set the stage for the third segment. The first film ended on a cliffhanger, leaving audiences wondering whether or not the two of them would marry. The film, directed by Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes, is based on one of Polish novelist Blanka Lipiska's profoundly sensuous bestselling novels.

The sequel picks up from the first movie's cliffhanger where the fate of Laura was up in the air after a rival Mafia family put a hit out on her. Unsurprisingly ...

Anna is probably dead and maybe Adriano too, but Laura surely isn't as we know that a third movie is on the way. Before Massimo can deal with that revelation though, Laura tries to break free and is shot by Anna, who is shot by Nacho in turn. Don Matos wants to use Laura to persuade Massimo to give up control of the family to his twin brother. Unsurprisingly, she survived and the sequel starts with Laura and Massimo getting married. Unfortunately for Massimo, Laura ended up being taken by the wrong bodyguard when she arrived at the meeting. She's had enough (understandable given her recent relationships), but is still forced to go to a meeting with Nacho's father where Massimo will also be in attendance.

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So, needless to say, it was Adriano and Anna that Laura caught having sex. But this was all part of a plot to push her into the arms of Nacho, who just so ...

When Laura tries to escape, Anna shoots her, at which point Nacho shoots Anna and Massimo shoots Adriano. As Laura lays bleeding out on the floor, Nacho holds his gun to Massimo’s head, but he ultimately leaves him alive to tend to her. While Massimo is meeting with Don Matos, they kidnap Laura. So, Nacho and Massimo team up to rescue her, leading to a standoff in which the entire plot is revealed, along with Laura having lost Massimo’s baby in her accident. But this was all part of a plot to push her into the arms of Nacho, who just so happens to be the son of Don Fernando Matos, Massimo’s long-time organized crime rival. Although she’s flirtatious with Nacho, Laura doesn’t actually see him again until later, when she catches what she assumes to be Massimo having sex with his ex, Anna. Naturally, Nacho just happens to be outside when she leaves, and he immediately whisks her away to the safety and anonymity of his beachside crib. The first film received a lot of deserved flack for its rapey kidnapping plot, so this sequel is eager to vocalize how that was all a very terrible idea but that Laura stuck around with Massimo out of her own volition. These early portions of the film are about two things, primarily — one is inverting the power dynamics so that Laura is the one in control of the relationship, and the other is establishing the life of a Mafia Don’s wife isn’t a particularly fulfilling one.

365 Days: This Day review - The sequel to 365 Days mostly delivers more of the same, but in doing so it breaks apart the allure of its own fantasy.

What you really need to know, probably, is that the sequel to 365 Days is just as full of sex montages set to pop music, includes a couple of scenes that’ll raise an eyebrow or two, and has a standard of acting and writing that might charitably be described as appalling. 365 Days: This Day wants him to represent a kind of humble working-class authenticity, but it also requires him to be part of a new fantasy, so despite being a gardener he lives in this insane beachside crib; he’s all tender and sensitive but he wrangles a home intruder with expert efficiency. Laura says outright that Massimo kidnapping her was sick and lets both him and the audience know that her continuing to be with him is her decision. Thanks to a couple of frankly ridiculous plot turns, he also becomes Laura’s literal savior, and after they abscond, the film’s thin plot continues from there. He’s charming, he cooks, he cleans, he dotes on his pregnant sister, and he represents, at least to Laura, an escape from a life that she is rapidly beginning to feel trapped by. There’s an understanding among their audience that they’re not real, and could never be real, and while it feels like a critical responsibility to point out that they probably don’t represent a net societal good, it also feels a little insulting to assume that those who enjoy them aren’t capable of separating fantasy from reality.

Laura and Massimo's ongoing sexcapades are less repugnantly rape-y than their first '365 Days,' so there's very little for the sequel to do.

But whatever marginally transgressive sex acts may be implied, it’s the black-and-gold vibrators and the bedsheets and Laura’s complicated lingerie that are really the focus of this tiresomely basic erotic fantasia: Like the “Fifty Shades of Grey” franchise that inspired this flagrant rip-off, the “365 Days” films are less about the sex than they are about the stuff. There’s a Christmas tryst in which Laura’s gift to Massimo is herself, trussed up in leather wristband restraints with “fuck me” somewhat redundantly emblazoned on them in gold, lying on a rumpled sheet alongside a cornucopia of sex toys — even one that is none-too-subtly inserted from a southerly direction right as the singer wails, “I wanna do bad things to you.” It’s hardly surprising the couple have a communication problem, given that Polish-speaking Laura and Italian-speaking Massimo use ESL-weekend-course-level English as their love language, and both have clearly been too busy humping to keep up with Duolingo. Exclamations like “Get me out from here!” “How do I look like?” along with Massimo’s often indecipherable cadences and Laura’s mangled pronunciations of words like “guaranteed” suggest they’d be a lot better off if only their relationship, like their movie, came with closed-caption subtitling. Without the flimsy, regressive “Beauty and the Beast with Two Backs” structure of the 2020 megahit (still the most successful movie ever in terms of number of days spent at No. 1 on Netflix worldwide), Lipińska and co-screenwriters Mandes and Mojca Tirš, in need of something to fill the slivers of time between soft-focus shagging sessions, go back to the classics. And then it’s back to the grind, as the newlyweds encounter such relatable newlywed issues as being bored while one’s spouse plots a rival family’s downfall and being distracted by the bulging tool belt of a scaldingly hot gardener (Simone Susinna, fair play to the casting agents for finding the only actor on earth who could make Morrone look merely quite handsome by comparison). LOL. So in a twist so unexpected they’ll hear you gasp in Warsaw, the second installment of Barbara Białowas and Tomasz Mandes’ adaptation of Blanka Lipińska’s “365 Days” trilogy drops today on Netflix, and it’s piping hot trash.

It's been confirmed that the third movie will bring back Anna-Maria Sieklucka and Michele Morrone as Laura and Massimo, respectively. They'll also be joined by ...

"And when Laura is seriously injured in an attack, pregnant and fighting to survive, Massimo faces the toughest decision of his life. She is often at risk, the potential target of Massimo's unscrupulous enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the powerful man," it reads. If the release date of the English translation of the third book is anything to go by, we could see the movie in September 2022. Massimo's twin Adriano revealed it to him during the tense showdown, but Massimo obviously didn't have time to dwell on it as Laura was shot. Twists and turns might be underselling it as 365 Days: This Day's ending will have left fans stunned and wondering what the future holds. The two sequels brought back the original creative team that made 365 Days such an unexpected hit.

365 Days This Day Starring Michele Morrone and Anna Maria Sieklucka the sequel to superhit 365 Days is now streaming on the OTT platform Check the ...

The film has a newcomer, named Simone Susinna who will play Massimo's rival, Marcelo "Nacho" Matos. He is a longtime enemy of Masimo and can do anything to destroy him and win over Laura. Starring Michele Morrone and Anna-Maria Sieklucka, the sequel to superhit 365 Days is now streaming on the OTT platform. Directed by Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes, the film is based on one of the intensely sensual bestselling novels by Polish novelist Blanka Lipińska.

Despite receiving a bashing from critics, the Polish erotic film series 365 Days has proven hugely successful with Netflix viewers so far. Advertisement.

What will the fate of his family be, and whose 365 days may come to a close?" For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the Radio Times podcast with Jane Garvey. And when Laura is seriously injured in an attack, pregnant and fighting to survive, Massimo faces the toughest decision of his life.

"Team America"-esque sex scenes, wooden acting, and a paper-thin plot, oh my!

In between constant montages that rely heavily on a) an incredible amount of thrusting, b) mouths hanging open to approximate passion, and c) all those pop jams, “365 Days: This Day” attempts to sneak in some semblance of a plot. “365 Days” didn’t give a damn about narrative conventions, and so it is with “ 365 Days: This Day,” which opens on a very-much-alive Laura, gussied up in a sexy wedding dress and the worst dye job you’ve ever seen, primed to walk down the aisle with Massimo. But not before a healthy pre-wedding boinkfest that opens with her telling her soon-to-be hubby, “I don’t have panties” and only sort of ends when her shocked BFF Olga arrives on the scene. In the film’s first 18 minutes, five songs roll out, offering more in the way of emotion and dialogue than the entire rest of the film. Laura resists, then doesn’t. The two fall in love, engage in vigorous sex in a variety of locations, and decide to spend the rest of their lives together, good taste or common sense be damned. When it landed on Netflix in the summer of 2020, Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes’ smash hit “365 Days” offered the streamer something special: its very own spin on “Fifty Shades of Grey,” complete with paper-thin plots, supposedly kinky sex, and a popular book series that included two more books ripe for the film treatment. Two years later, the popular — but controversial — film series chugs onward with its first sequel, a nearly two-hour affair that doesn’t just push the boundaries of tasteful entertainment, but simply steamrolls right over them in service to an even more problematic outing that’s alternately hilarious and boring.

The movie adaptations of Blanka Lipińska's 365 Days novels continue with 365 Days: This Day, which ramps up the telenovela-level drama for Laura (Anna-Maria ...

The extraordinary display of eyewear throughout, as Massimo and Laura mask their squinting pouts, constipated frowns, and grimacing sex faces in ever more extravagant assemblies of tinted glass. The white bridal Lamborghini. The honeymoon game of sex golf, where Laura pole dances on the green’s flag, then spreads her legs to invite Massimo’s putt. Defanged of the first film’s problematic premise, This Day is easier to enjoy as guilt-free camp. Nothing else happens for the first half of this film. All of these qualities are shared by the sequel 365 Days: This Day, except those that made the first film troubling but gave it its (few, wobbly) teeth. After some boning, it’s revealed that Laura lost the child she was carrying at the end of the first film, but never mind — more boning. Massimo is still withholding and controlling, but now within the context of a “normal” trophy-wife Mafia marriage — and there’s always the boning. The film was co-directed and co-written by women, and based on a book by a woman, but the male gaze dominates both the narrative and the camera’s leering presence. Adapted from the second of Lipińska’s books, This Day picks up where the first film left off — kind of. Kidnapping as an established female sex fantasy, with its complex layers of control and consent, is too big and tricky a topic for this review. It turns out Massimo has been obsessed with Laura since he observed her on a beach, through binoculars, the day his father was assassinated and he himself almost died. The bland and largely kink-free nature of the rest of the romps is still colored by the coercion inherent in the film’s premise.

The Gist: There's Laura – and yes, she's wearing a wedding dress. And there's Massimo, all tuxed up. The nuptials haven't happened yet and they're already ...

3, The Next 365 Days, coming and coming and coming and coming and coming soon.) His name is Nacho (Simone Susinna), as in “Nacho Bellgrande.” She opens up to Nacho about how her only job is “being a wife – how pathetic is that?” If she cried on his shoulder, the tears would bead up and slough right off because he’s rrrrrrripped. He shows her his love on Xmas by gifting her an entire clothing business, and she thanks him by whispering in his ear and then licking it – and then goes the rest of the movie without working at the clothing business for a single second. Laura gets railed so often in this movie she starts to look like the landscape in Once Upon a Time in the West. Oh, and sometimes Olga gets some, too, in case the movie didn’t have enough sex scenes, and if I’m not mistaken she does it to humpsongs that are even würse. That leaves us to trudge through the swamp of the story, which I’d call soap operatic if it wasn’t an insult to soap operas. Sometimes, they do it rough and sometimes they do it a little rougher and once in a while even rougher still, with cuffs and stuff. At the 26-minute mark, there’s a hint of one as Laura rolls over one morning and pinches a nip and they French the plaque off each other’s teeth and Massimo casually mentions that he has a brother she doesn’t know about. It happens – the wedding, I need to clarify, what with all the intercourse happening around here – and the newlyweds pile into his white-wedding Lambo and drive off so they can do it again and again and again, every time to a different terrible, terrible, terrible song on the soundtrack, some of which feature lyrics that make Hinder sound like The Bard. They get up the next morning and, against all odds, walk without a gait or a limp or anything. And two, he goes right up that dress to consummate the marriage mere moments before they tie the knot. The nuptials haven’t happened yet and they’re already violating two traditions: One, Massimo sees her in her dress before the ceremony. The Gist: There’s Laura – and yes, she’s wearing a wedding dress.