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The Next 365 Days: 12 Thoughts I Had While Watching The Netflix Movie

The Next 365 Days brought up a lot of thoughts for me.

Well, friends, we are at the end of one very crazy road now that all of us with a Netflix subscription have been able to watch the third and final installment of the controversial 365 Days franchise, The Next 365 Days , which released recently as part of the 2022 Netflix movie schedule . As you can probably guess, the trilogy-ending film brought viewers a lot of sex, surprises, and much more, and while I will definitely be writing about the ending, honestly? I really don’t know what to make of this movie right now, despite having watched it several days ago. 

So! To help me process my feelings about The Next 365 Days (a potential new addition to the sexually explicit Netflix movies list), I’m going to go through some of the many (MANY) thoughts I had while watching this film. And, just so you know, there are SPOILERS APLENTY throughout this article , so if you haven’t finished the franchise yet, you might want to do that before reading on. Ready? Let’s do this!

I’m Scared

You guys? These movies are wild , OK? You cannot count on getting anything other than sex scenes from the 365 Days franchise, so all plotlines and, really, common sense moves by Laura, Massimo, or others involved are up in the air. I wasn’t even fully watching the movie when this first thought came up. I had literally hit play and was still making my way through the various logos for the companies that produced The Next 365 Days when I thought, “I’m scared.” Is that good or bad? I don’t know!

This Franchise Hates Dealing With The Fallout From Cliffhangers

Well, dammit. You know how the previous film started with Laura and Olga physically recovered from whatever attack they endured in the tunnel at the end of 365 Days ? And, how all we heard about that traumatic event was that it caused Laura to lose her baby? This movie takes that same route, by completely skipping over the direct fallout from Laura getting shot at the end of the second movie. All we know is that Massimo’s evil twin, Adriano, is somehow dead despite just getting shot in the shoulder during the 365 Days: This Day ending , and Laura is still recuperating at home and hasn’t been cleared for sexytimes by her doctor yet. Yay?

They’re Over-Stuffing The Movie With Music Again, But I Don’t Totally Mind This Time

The second movie went really hard on music, filling much of its time with (what sounded like the full version of) a whopping 23 songs. It was baffling, but I totally got it after watching, because the 365 Days movies are, how do I say this nicely…relatively light on plot and believable dialogue, alright? So, when I was about eight minutes into the third movie, and realized I’d heard roughly five full songs, I knew they were up to their old tricks on The Next 365 Days soundtrack . But, I didn’t really mind it, because it stops us from listening to the less than optimal dialogue, and the songs also fit the scenery very well. Win-win!

Three Sex Scenes And No Nudity? Curious

As we know, 365 Days is famous for its shockingly realistic sex scenes and lots of nudity, but, somehow we get through three sex scenes without Anna-Maria Sieklucka (who’s been naked a lot for these movies) or Michele Morrone showing any serious skin. I found it odd, but will admit to also being kinda happy for Sieklucka, as I assumed she was just tired of filming so much nudity and said she wasn’t interested this time around. Turns out, that wasn’t the case.

Look At Massimo Enjoying His Alone Time In The Shower. Good For Him!

Shortly after a shot of Nacho’s very firm man butt breaks the no-nudity streak, Massimo takes a shower. Not revolutionary on its own, but this scene featured Massimo, um… enjoying his alone time in the shower. And, you know what? Laura indulged in similar activities in both of the first two movies, so good for Massimo!

So, Laura Can Actually Design Clothes Now?

365 Days: This Day showed us that Massimo bought a fashion company for Laura to run, after she told him she was bored of being a kept mob wife. I was already suspicious of her ability to run a whole company of any sort (She worked for a hotel before; as a sales manager, maybe?), but in The Next 365 Days , not only is she fully running that fashion company, but actually designing the clothes. Did we already know she could do this, or did Laura learn fashion design while convalescing after her two mob-related injuries? We may never know!

Of Course There’s A Sex Club Scene

I suppose someone had to get naked in the first 40 minutes of this movie.

Olga Is Definitely The Best Part Of These Movies

Magdalena Lamparska, who plays Laura’s best friend Olga, is really the best part of this whole trilogy. She’s funny, willing to tell her buddy when she’s being dumb while also managing to be a good friend who doesn’t judge Laura for her stupid moves, and can also deliver her own messy drama and fun sexytimes. I’m here for a movie focused on Olga’s adventures, is what I’m saying.

Man, Laura Has Some Vivid (And Vividly Naked) Dreams

Ah, I get the withholding of nudity from Laura by the time we get to yet another one of her vivid sex dreams, as about 52 minutes in we see her mind working overtime to conjure up more sex with Nacho, where both look to be totally naked . My guess is that this is our sign that Laura is more into Nacho than Massimo, which is as good of an indicator as anything. But, her vividly sexual dreams do make me wonder why all of my “dreams” are filled with nightmare fuel like vampires and snake attacks. I just realized those both have fangs in common. Should I be talking to my therapist about this?

So much for the dream sex. Laura caved and had real sex with Nacho, meaning that she cheated on her still new husband, Massimo. This might not end well!

Nacho Is Clearly Better Than Massimo

This was pretty clear during the second film, but becomes even more obvious in The Next 365 Days . I mean, sure, Nacho is a kidnapper just like Massimo, and both are gangsters who live dangerous lives. But! Nacho actually shows pleasant emotions like happiness and kindness when around Laura, as opposed to being stone-faced/emotionally distant all the time like Massimo. He watched a movie with her, you guys! Plus, Nacho only kidnapped Laura to help out his dad, it’s totally not as bad as why Massimo kidnapped her. Nacho + Laura 4Eva!

I. Am. ENRAGED.

Boy howdy. With all of the possible endings that I expected might come to fruition from this nutty trilogy filled with gang activity, kidnappings, sex, and incredibly poor decisions, I certainly did not expect for the final film TO LEAVE FANS WITH YET ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER. 

That’s right, folks. Laura spent most of this movie trying to decide if she wanted to leave Massimo for Nacho, and the final minutes see Massimo telling Laura that he’ll let her go, but we don’t get to hear her decision! I was confused at first, so I rewatched the whole ending scene, and then rewatched it again. By the third watch I was livid! All of this mess, and we don’t get to see who Laura ends up with? How dare you! HOW DARE YOU ALL!!!

Luckily, I didn’t stay angry for too long, as I can at least remember the good times, like when Laura and Massimo had lots of adult fun while seafaring, or when Laura ran away with Nacho and he smiled at her like a normal human being. The 365 Days movies are done (as far as we know, anyway...) , but we’ll always have the mostly-naked sexytimes, even if we don’t have an actual end to the franchise.

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The NEXT 365 DAYS takes off where 365 Days and 365 Days: This Day left off. Laura ( Anna Maria Sieklucka ), the woman kidnapped back in movie No. 1 by brooding misogynist rapist gangster Massimo ( Michele Morrone ), is now Massimo's wife. As in the previous films, she drinks a lot of alcohol with her Polish bestie Olga (Magdalena Lamparska), parties at discos, has somehow created a successful fashion brand through almost no effort, and is now shell-shocked from the violent turn of the first sequel, when she was shot and suffered a miscarriage. She's still dreaming about another man who deceived her, Nacho (Simone Sussina), a surfing champ who is also a son of a rival Italian gangster family. The gist of the current plot is that Laura loves one man who kidnapped her and another who was part of a plot to kill the husband. Will Laura seek therapy for her bad taste in men? Will Massimo kill her for cheating? Will she divorce Massimo and couple up with the deceptive Nacho? It takes 112 minutes to get to that final question, and it's not even answered, suggesting another installment is soon to follow.

Is It Any Good?

As with the series' earlier movies, in The Next 365 Days no one associated with the production has made any discernible effort to render either Massimo or Laura any nicer, more likable, or palatable. At least we no longer have to contend with the secret evil twin who bit the dust in installment No. 2. It feels as if the steadfast directors and writers on this dopey franchise have completely dispensed with such pesky production problems as plot and character depth for this latest sequel. And if the sex scenes were recycled from the last 365 er, no one would know. For those hoping to enjoy the simulated sex, surely more satisfying watching experiences are available.

Likewise, if you're looking for knockout acting or revealing character studies, this will more than disappoint. The insipid story is matched by a numbing rock with equally insipid lyrics: "Save me from the shadows, they want to eat my soul." It's all part of an uncomplicated formula: great-looking people in varying stages of undress set against beautiful scenery, wrapped in the trappings of conspicuous consumption and wealth. Luxury suites, expensive cars, clothes, vast spreads of gourmet foods, and alcohol-soaked lead characters with a penchant for masochism signal the dual theme of this combo genre: problems of the rich and criminal and wretched excess.

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Movie Details

• On DVD or streaming : August 19, 2022
• Cast : Anna-Maria Sieklucka , Michele Morrone , Simone Sussina
• Directors : Barbara Bialowas , Barbara Bialowas. Tomasz Mandes
• Studio : Netflix
• Genre : Drama
• Run time : 112 minutes
• MPAA rating : NR
• Last updated : February 17, 2023

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365 Days: This Day

2022, Drama/Romance, 1h 50m

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Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple's new beginning is complicated by Massimo's family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura's life to win her heart and trust, at any cost.

Genre: Drama, Romance

Original Language: Polish

Director: Barbara Białowąs , Tomasz Mandes

Producer: Tomasz Mandes , Maciej Kawulski

Writer: Tomasz Mandes , Blanka Lipińska

Release Date (Streaming): Apr 27, 2022

Runtime: 1h 50m

Distributor: Netflix

Production Co: Next Film, Ekipa, Netflix, Future Space, TVN

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Anna Maria Sieklucka

Michele Morrone

Simone Susinna

Magdalena Lamparska

Otar Saralidze

Natasza Urbanska

Dariusz Jakubowski

Barbara Białowąs

Tomasz Mandes

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Blanka Lipińska

Maciej Kawulski

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Critically panned, the steamy Polish flick is a streaming success thanks to TikTok teenagers and curious fans. But there’s also a growing backlash from those who say it glorifies rape culture.

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Two years ago, Michele Morrone was working as a gardener in a tiny northern Italian village. Newly divorced, broke and severely depressed, he had given up on his TV acting career after being repeatedly told that he was too attractive for the roles on offer. “In Italy, if you’re a good-looking guy, you’re not an actor,” he said matter-of-factly. “You’re just someone good-looking.”

But after five months toiling alongside cows and chickens, he got a call from his agent that a team of Polish filmmakers wanted to offer him the role of a Mafia boss in the erotic thriller “365 Days,” a part that required someone Italian and very good-looking.

“I woke up, called my gardening boss and said: ‘I’m not coming in today. My stomach doesn’t feel good,’” the 29-year-old father of two recalled. He boarded a plane to Poland and his life hasn’t been the same since.

Despite a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes , “365 Days,” directed by Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes, quickly became a viral sensation when it arrived on Netflix worldwide on June 7, following a successful theatrical run in Poland and a limited British release earlier this year. Scripted in English with occasional subtitled Polish and Italian, the dicey plot clearly didn’t deter viewers: the Sicilian Mafia boss Massimo (Morrone) kidnaps the unsuspecting Laura (the Polish newcomer Anna-Maria Sieklucka) and gives her one year to fall in love with him before he’ll free her from his palatial lair.

Amid a growing backlash, critics say it glorifies rape culture and Stockholm syndrome. Fans say it’s been unfairly maligned. What isn’t in dispute is that nearly a month after its streaming debut and with seemingly no promotion, the film remains among Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched titles in the United States and other countries, including Australia, Britain, Brazil, France, Spain and India.

Based on the first in a best-selling trilogy of Polish novels by Blanka Lipinska, “365 Days” leans heavily into travel porn, wealth porn and soft-core actual porn, apparently an appealing combination in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis when many viewers have been at home for months on end.

“In a way, it was almost custom-made for pandemic viewing: beautiful people having exotic sex in opulent settings,” said Caetlin Benson-Allott, an associate professor at Georgetown University and an expert on movie viewing habits.

There’s plenty of (simulated) carnality to ogle in the film’s 114 minutes: breasts, buttocks, fellatio, cunnilingus, nipple tweaking, seductive ice-cream licking and more. And since Netflix defines a view as watching a mere two minutes of a title, it’s impossible to know if a majority of viewers watched the full movie or skipped to the more tantalizing scenes.

Teenagers on TikTok were some of the first to spread word of “365 Days” by filming themselves reacting to the sex scenes with a mix of shock and admiration. “I did not expect this kind of movie to be on Netflix; maybe, like, late-night HBO,” Noah Holifield, an 18-year-old Chicagoan whose reaction video has more than 2.6 million views, said in an interview.

Some joke that they too would like to be kidnapped by Massimo, and his catchphrase, “Are you lost, baby girl?” (often stylized “baby gorl” to mirror Morrone’s elocution), is now a meme set to music in which the users eagerly respond, “Yes, daddy!”

“I don’t see anything problematic with the relationship of Massimo and Laura other than the fact that he kidnapped her and planned to keep her kidnapped for 365 days,” another TikTok user, Marin Hawkins, said in an interview. Hawkins, a 19-year-old from Ohio, posted her wide-eyed reaction to the infamous shower scene (not to be confused with the infamous boat scene). “Other than that, the relationship between them was good.”

And its impact extends beyond Gen Z. Audrey D’Antuono, a 44-year-old mental health counselor from Eden, N.C., and her sister flew to Poland in February to see “365 Days” in a Warsaw cinema after the trailer began surfacing on literary fan pages on Facebook.

“My husband told me I was crazy,” D’Antuono said. “He said it would be available to stream within the next few months, but I couldn’t wait. I’d never seen a trailer quite like it, and the movie lived up to the hype. I think we as a society are scared to talk about erotica or sex. It’s like this hush-hush mentality, but they’ve brought a taboo subject to the mainstream and found people like it.”

Then there’s Susana Rodriguez, 33, of Houston. She said she’d watched “365 Days” at least 100 times on Netflix and doesn’t agree with those who condemn it. “Yes, it does romanticize Stockholm syndrome, but it’s just a movie,” she said. “Other movies have killers and people getting killed, but they’re not protesting those movies. It’s 2020. We need to separate fiction from reality.”

Some of the criticism of “365 Days” echoes that of the “50 Shades of Grey” trilogy, another campy book-to-movie slice of erotica featuring a wealthy, powerful man and BDSM. Benson-Allott said the outright dismissal of both franchises was the byproduct of the United States being “still a very puritanical country in a lot of ways.”

“We frown on pornography and judge people for enjoying erotic fiction,” she added.

But it’s hard to ignore that the entire premise of “365 Days” is problematic. Variety’s review blasted the film’s “two flavors of misogyny” and its suggestion “that consent can be obtained retroactively,” while the feminist website Jezebel lamented “how quickly depraved abduction turns to cookie-cutter fairy tale.”

In an open letter to the Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings, made public on July 2, the Welsh singer Duffy — who earlier this year opened up about her own experience being drugged, kidnapped and raped — asked the platform to remove the title, writing, “This should not be anyone’s idea of entertainment, nor should it be described as such, or be commercialized in this manner.”

The streaming service wouldn’t comment for this article, while Morrone emphasized that the story was pure fantasy and that he “would never encourage or want anyone to fall in love with their captor in real life.”

But Dr. Goali Saedi Bocci, a clinical psychologist and columnist for Psychology Today, warned against dismissing the issues on the basis of fiction.

“There is clearly quite a bit of misunderstanding about sexual consent and assault” in real life, Bocci said, “and such films only continue to muddy the waters.” The danger is that men and women “can be victims of sexual assault, rape, molestation and not even recognize it as such.”

“We have to be extra cautious of the media we consume because, like it or not, these things get into our subconscious,” she said.

Still, the film has racked up fans, as evidenced by Morrone’s Instagram account , which has skyrocketed from fewer than 200,000 followers in January to more than 7 million at the end of June. On a night out while visiting Berlin, he was mobbed by German teenagers clamoring for selfies. It’s an unexpected turn for the son of a construction worker and housekeeper who paints, dances (he was a runner-up on the 2016 season of Italy’s “Dancing With the Stars”), plays guitar, sings and writes his own extremely personal music, like a song about his 2018 divorce from the Lebanese fashion designer Rouba Saadeh.

After four of his tracks were featured in “365 Days,” Universal Music Group signed him to a global record deal, and he’s working on a second album while fielding scripts from Hollywood and Europe. But first, with “365 Days” ending on a cliffhanger and two books still to go in the series, he’ll soon reprise his career-making role in a sequel that will film when pandemic restrictions are lifted.

He teased, “The story is going to be very, very interesting.”

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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?

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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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this movie has a bad intense... it teach you that cheating on your husband with a men you had sex with him it is something normal and it from your right and your husbad dont have the right to not let you do what you want ... this is trash its make the principal character masimo look like he have no weight ( by cheating on im) bad one netflix

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In June 2020, as a hot-and-bothered world fretted through a lockdown summer, Netflix slipped a Polish-Italian erotic drama called 365 Days into its algorithm. A softcore fantasy of yacht sex, thick accents, and troubling consent issues, it came across as a low-rent Fifty Shades of Grey : flashier, trashier, simultaneously tamer and more offensive, and much more inept and cheesy. An unequivocally terrible film, it was also an enormous hit. It went straight to No. 1 in Netflix’s top 10 chart and stayed there for 10 days, still one of the longest runs the service has seen.

Now we have a sequel, 365 Days: This Day , which features more sex (or at least more participants), more brooding, more expensive cars and clothes, more unintentional comedy, even less plot, and the same number of visible penises (zero). As difficult as it might be to believe, it’s even worse than the first movie. But it goes down easier, because much of the first film’s ugly side has been smoothed away. That’s a good thing — isn’t it? Well, that depends on why anyone was watching in the first place. To pick that apart, we need to revisit the original.

Based on the first of a trilogy of erotic novels by Polish author Blanka Lipińska, 365 Days follows a young woman, Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucka), from Warsaw to Sicily, where she’s spotted and promptly kidnapped by Massimo (Michele Morrone), a glowering, chiseled, obscenely rich Mafia scion. 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 film doesn’t take time to explore why a bullet passing through his father’s body and into his own would carry such a lingering erotic charge for Massimo, but wow .)

Massimo says he will keep Laura captive for 365 days, enough time for her to fall in love with him. But while he desperately wants her and he’s used to taking whatever he wants, he promises to refrain from raping her. What a gentleman. The fiery Laura blazes back at him throughout her early captivity, but without the horror her situation would seem to demand. At the risk of spoilers, before the 365 days are up, they’re consensually going at it in a series of very vigorous, surprisingly vanilla sex scenes.

This grotesque, disquieting setup sparked a lot of conversation at the time . An early scene where Massimo wordlessly demands and receives oral sex from one of his employees carries a distinctly unpleasant flavor of sexual violence. 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 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.

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. What 365 Days does is create a kind of aesthetic safe space for that fantasy. With its thin characters, bad acting, laughably threadbare plot, music-video direction, and sex that’s explicit only to a point, 365 Days is porn-but-not. It has neither the emotional stakes of actual drama nor the stigma of actual smut. You can laugh it off. (Perhaps this also explains why people choose to watch stuff like this even when it sits right next to the full-frontal nudity and explicit unsimulated sex of something like Gaspar Noé’s Love , which was also on Netflix for a while.)

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. Adapted from the second of Lipińska’s books, This Day picks up where the first film left off — kind of. In one of the awkward lurches and clumsy, nonsensical elisions that are the unfortunate trademark of directors Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes, 365 Days ’ cliffhanger ending is unceremoniously brushed aside. Now it’s Laura and Massimo’s wedding day!

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. Laura’s best friend Olga (Magdalena Lamparska, charming and garrulous, once again the standout performer by far) couples up with Massimo’s right-hand man Domenico (Otar Saralidze) to join in the boning fun.

Nothing else happens for the first half of this film. Squandering what narrative tension the first film had, and in no particular hurry to set up its own, This Day starts out as a limp, redundant frame for fantasy sex. In the second half, a telenovela-level melodrama comes to a reluctant boil. Massimo’s ex has a nefarious plan, Massimo has family he hasn’t mentioned, and Laura is visited by mysterious, hunky gardener Nacho, who wears a hat that literally says “cock” on it. It’s all very silly in a way that’s almost endearing, although it’s handled so sloppily that it can still become boring.

365 Days: This Day frequently slumps into a torpid haze of wheeling, slow-motion montages that don’t really distinguish between shots of sex, shopping, supercars, and heartwarming family dinners. The wealth-porn is as prominent as the porn-porn. There’s a carpet of numb Europop over the whole thing, some of it sung by Morrone himself. (One choice couplet: “I’m a little bit of a psycho / I’m driving you like a Lambo.”)

Defanged of the first film’s problematic premise, This Day is easier to enjoy as guilt-free camp. There are moments of ripe, tasteless abandon that are absolutely hilarious, intentionally or (more likely) not. 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 . The shackles that have “fuck me” embossed on them in gold. 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. (Talk about 50 shades.)

There’s nothing like reality here, and certainly nothing like real sex. There’s isn’t much sex at all in the last half hour, as the plot, such as it is, gets down to business and sets up an ending that the inevitable third film will probably ignore. There are no stakes, and there’s little that’s offensive, except to the art and craft of cinema. It’s funny. It’s glossy. It’s a fantasy. It’s safe. It’s soft.

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‘365 Days: This Day’ Review: An Even Soapier Second Serving of Softcore Polish Drivel

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.

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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. Moreover, largely absent the first film’s outright offensive rape apologism — “Baby Girl” Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) even refers to her erstwhile kidnapping as “sick” at one point, marking an empowerment arc as skimpy as her underwear — this time out there’s even less of what in screenwriting terminology is called a “reason” for the “story.”

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. Which in the “365 Days” universe does not mean Aeschylus, but “As The World Turns.” Or “General Hospital.” Or “All My Children.” Or basically any soap opera that aired long enough to resort to the most eyeroll-inducing of plot contrivances, which spoiler sensitivity mandates must not be revealed here, but, yes, it’s that one. You know the one.

So wait, can this mean that Laura survived the last film’s ending, a cliffhanger so uninspired it was set on a literal cliff? Reader, she did! The sequel opens with Laura on her wedding day receiving a visit from her Sicilian mafioso fiancé Massimo ( Michele Morrone , the human incarnation of the smoldering ruins of Rome circa AD 64) before their nuptials. “You shouldn’t be here,” is the first line she speaks (in fairness she can rarely get a word in between the wall-to-wall rock balladeering of the soundtrack) as she coyly turns away from one of approximately 26 featured Mediterranean horizons. But unsolicited though Massimo’s arrival may be, her second line — “I don’t have panties” — suggests it’s hardly unexpected. Their subsequent sun-flared lovemaking confirms that while Episode One’s attempt on her life may have caused Laura to lose the pregnancy she’d never told Massimo about, it has not otherwise marred her rockin’ bod, nor even mildly inhibited her flexibility.

Enter Laura’s party-girl BFF Olga (Magdalena Lamparska), shrieking about bad luck and shooing Massimo away, just in time for Laura to redo her makeup, briefly don some knickers and slo-mo up the aisle to “Ave Maria.” Then the “November Rain”-video vibe gives way to a sexed-up Sandals resort commercial as the honeymoon passes in a blur of light bondage, pool sex and a truly hilarious game of erotic golf. They ride ponies on the beach at sunset. Laura goes brunette again. 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).

The gardener — OR IS HE? — is called Nacho, appropriately for such a tasty snack, and shows up just in time to be a tattooed deltoid to cry on for Laura, who is becoming a bit frustrated with being the kept woman of a sexually aggressive but emotionally repressed gangster who only deals in groin-based intimacy. 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.

Then Laura discovers hubs being groinally intimate with his ex-girlfriend Anna (Natasza Urbanska) at a party. Flinging her phone into the sea, Laura, never one to engineer her own escapes, husks “take me away from here” to Nacho. They abscond to another paradise island and another paradise villa, differentiated from Massimo’s mainly because the furnishings are predominantly wicker. They have sex — or do they? Is it perhaps all a dream? The eternal gauziness of DP Bartek Cielica’s ’90s music-video cinematography, set to the omnipresent off-brand rock-pop contributions from incredibly overworked composers Patryk Komór and Dominic Buczkowski-Woytaszek, make it very hard to tell Laura’s softcore fantasies from Laura’s softcore reality.

But then, that’s the point here. The sex scenes are varied, at least in terms of location — honestly, you’ll never look at a putting green the same way. 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.”

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 . The suits and sunglasses, villas and jetskis, shopping montages and stripper heels, Lamborghinis and Corvettes. Long before “This Day” closes on its inevitable cliffhanger — this time genuinely one of the funniest slow-motion shootouts ever — it’s devolved into the lifestyle catalogue it was always destined to be, once the ick of its initial premise wore thin. Which is good news for franchise stakeholders eyeing future installments up to and beyond Lipinska’s third book, because dunderheaded rape-romance plots might get you to 365 days, but stuff? Stuff is forever.

Reviewed on Netflix, April 26, 2022. Running time: 111 MIN. (Original title: "365 Dni: Ten Dzień")

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

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John le carré tells errol morris his life story, tommy lee jones and jamie foxx have a courtroom bromance, ken burns revisits the destruction of the american buffalo, and much, much more..

By WSJ Arts in Review Staff

Nov. 1, 2023 5:34 pm ET

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If someone were going to tell you their life story, the ideal someone would be one of the world’s great storytellers—John le Carré, for instance, the celebrated spy novelist, literary archivist of the Cold War, spinner of tales of diaphanous morality. And what better conduit than Errol Morris, a filmmaker fascinated by people who delude themselves, or defend the indefensible, or become pawns in a system that eventually devours them—just like those in a Le Carré novel?

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