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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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'The Next 365 Days' Review: For Masochists Only

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.

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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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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.

Performance Worth Watching: [We’re sorry, the number you have dialed has been disconnected. Please check the number and dial again.]

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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The next 365 days ending explained (in detail).

The 365 Days trilogy wrapped up with The Next 365 Days, but what happened in the the Netflix hit's ending and what does it mean for Laura and Massimo?

The Next 365 Days ending surprises viewers with its grounded and mature approach, deviating from the over-the-top plot of the previous films in the trilogy.
The ending focuses on consent and agency, giving Laura more control over her own decisions and showing that Massimo understands the importance of consent.
While critics are dissatisfied with the ending, fans also express disappointment, questioning the open-ended nature and the difficulty Laura faces in choosing between two troubled love interests.

Netflix’s controversial 365 Days trilogy has come to a close with The Next 365 Days , prompting viewers to wonder what the surprisingly calm The Next 365 Days ending means for the wild trilogy. While the 365 Days movies are undeniably full of clichés, that doesn’t make the trilogy in any way predictable. For example, while many viewers familiar with the romance genre might have predicted that Laura and Massimo would eventually fall in love in the original 365 Days , few would have guessed that this would happen when Massimo held her hostage for the titular time period. Similarly, viewers watching 365 Days: This Day couldn’t have guessed that Massimo didn’t cheat on Laura , his until-now unmentioned evil twin did. The 365 Days trilogy was full of this type of wild, soapy twist.

Ironically, the most surprising thing about The Next 365 Days ending is that the closing chapter of the series is its most grounded outing so far. The Next 365 Days drops the absurd, over-the-top soap opera plotting of the earlier 365 Days movies, focusing on a love triangle between Nacho, Laura, and Massimo that never boils over into gunfights, murders, kidnappings, or even a punch-up between the two potential love interests. Instead, in a truly unexpected twist, both Massimo and Nacho decide to respect Laura’s wishes and let her make her own decisions about her love life. Laura’s life isn’t threatened in the Netflix movie ending (which is a first for the 365 Days movies), but she does appear to choose one suitor over the other.

What Happens In The Next 365 Days Ending

The majority of The Next 365 Days sees Massimo and Laura drifting apart after the dramatic, life-endangering events of 365 Days: This Day . Laura finally tells Massimo that she lost her pregnancy in a car crash at the end of the original 365 Days and Massimo is hurt that she didn’t inform him at the time. This drives a wedge between the duo, resulting in Laura eventually sleeping with Nacho while she is in Portugal on business. Massimo offers Laura space to work out what’s best for her, she fantasizes about a threesome between her, Nacho, and Massimo, visits her parents, and eventually returns to Massimo.

Critics horrified by the popular but badly reviewed 365 Days movies and their depiction of glamorous, romanticized fantasy versions of abusive dynamics could be relieved by what then occurs. Massimo, the mob boss who once held Laura hostage for a year to force her to fall in love with him, sits on the beach and says he only wants to be with her if it is what she truly wants.

How The Next 365 Days Changes The Book’s Plot

While the ambiguous ending of The Next 365 Days does appear to imply that Laura and Massimo will stay together, this is far from the biggest change that the movie adaptation makes to the original novel. The novel The Next 365 Days sees Laura leave Massimo to be with Nacho, only for Massimo to send Laura the dead body of her pet dog in the post.

In a bizarre twist that the story apparently borrowed from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights , Massimo claims Nacho killed her dog, gets Laura back, and immediately imprisons her in his mansion again. When Laura discovers Massimo is the one who killed her dog, it is not long before she seduces him, escapes, and runs off with Nacho. Surprisingly, Massimo then assents to divorce, meaning Laura and Nacho end up living happily ever after and the unhinged mob boss simply accepts that his former paramour is gone for good.

Do Laura and Massimo Stay Together In The Next 365 Days Ending

The Next 365 Days ending doesn’t confirm whether Laura and Massimo stay together for good one way or the other. However, when the credits roll on the Netflix romance trilogy, it seems likely that the pair will not break up again. Where the two earlier 365 Days movies ended with a fake-out Laura death , The Next 365 Days ending sees Massimo finally directly ask Laura who she wants to be with, him or Nacho.

Laura and Massimo don’t explicitly reconcile, with The Next 365 Days ending with Massimo asking whether Laura is “ back ” after sharing a sweet story and life lesson that his late father taught him. It seems Massimo Senior explained to his son that if you love something, you must let it go to see whether it comes back, and that is how you know whether a relationship is meant to be. According to The Next 365 Days ending, that’s what Massimo did when he accepted that Laura wanted to be with Nacho and awaited her return.

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What Does The Next 365 Days Ending Really Mean?

The ending of The Next 365 Days represents a shift in the trilogy’s attitudes toward consent. Both 365 Days: This Day and the original 365 Days were despised by critics for their perceived glamorization of toxic, dangerous relationship dynamics, with the franchise’s defenders noting that the movies were campy, over-the-top fantasies not designed to be taken seriously. However, The Next 365 Days ending does take the story relatively seriously, jettisoning the wildly silly plot of the source novel for a (comparatively) muted, mature ending to the franchise.

The franchise finally gives Laura some agency of her own, proves that Massimo is capable of understanding the concept of consent, and depicts both its male love interests as characters who want the best for their partner rather than their own needs prioritized. It isn’t particularly in line with the tone of the preceding movies but, surprising as it may seem, the much more grounded The Next 365 Days does address the most common criticisms of the franchise. Where the original controversial 365 Days was criticized as a celebration of toxic tropes (and defended as a goofy, overtly silly fantasy), the final 365 Days movie applies basic ideas of consent and agency to the problematic framework set out by the earlier movies in the series.

While The Next 365 Days ending doesn’t tell viewers whether Laura and Massimo ended up together, it does tell them that the decision will be one that the pair come to together — which might be the biggest shock in the entire 365 Days trilogy.

How Fans Feel About The Next 365 Days Ending

Critics were not exactly happy with The Next 365 Days ending. Jessica Kiang of Variety even called the plotting of the movie, and the trilogy as a whole “bone-tired.” Despite the critical opposition to the movies, they have remained incredibly popular to stream on Netflix. Part of that popularity comes from YouTubers reacting to the movie though, and they have quite a bit to say.

HeavySpoilers called the movies “Worst. Trilogy. Of. All. Time.” In fact, the only reason the YouTube channel decided to react to the ending of the trilogy is because they’d already invested time into the first two movies, and confirmed that they feel the third is the worst of the bunch. They also predict a fourth movie instead of the series capping as a trilogy simply because of the ambiguous nature of the ending. The prediction is that a fourth film could simply use the final chapters of the novel to inspire the story, sending Massimo and Nacho fully to war with one another, milking the final bit of the novels to get one more popular Netflix entry out of the source material.

Pop culture podcasters have also been reviewing and reacting to the Netflix movie, and Daniel Barnes of the Dare Daniel podcast largely has the same sentiments as the YouTubers reacting to the movie. Barnes said The Next 365 Days was “utterly lacking in new story developments.” Again, Barnes only watched the movie because he’d already watched the first two as well, and it was requested by a podcast audience member.

The consensus among Netflix fans is not that far off from critics and those reacting to the movie, however. Fans don’t love the ambiguous ending, wondering why a third movie that was supposed to cap a trilogy has left the movie open-ended.

Fans have also been wondering why The Next 365 ending makes it so hard for the main character to choose between the two men in her life. As X (formerly Twitter) user negressnparis points out , the decision shouldn’t be difficult after Massimo kidnapped you, is emotionally and verbally abusive, and all around has some deep rooted issues.”

It appears that, despite the popularity of the 365 Days movies, Netflix might have dragged the story out just a little too long to keep the fans happy. The Next 365 Days ending in ambiguity and a difficult decision might be the last straw for some of those who enjoy the movies.

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Takes too long for the main storyline to start. I ended up skipping loads. - Main basis of the storyline is good, but its a little too basic. They could have done more in the tineframe. - Too little dialogue. - Too many pointless sexual scenes.

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What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

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Positive Messages

Movie suggests that women are turned on by domineering and brutal men who take what they want.

Positive Role Models

Film models a dynamic of women first resisting, then submitting, via Stockholm syndrome, to violent and overpowering men.

Violence & Scariness

A man's face is covered with blood when his father is shot. Gangsters discuss sex trafficking of young girls. A gangster threatens a financial adviser. A kidnapper tells the woman he kidnapped that he's "going to give her a chance" to fall in love with him. A man warns the woman he has kidnapped "I can't be gentle. I'm not used to tolerating disobedience." A man who has kidnapped a woman and murdered people lectures a tied-up colleague who trafficked in young girls on ethics. He later kills the colleague. Kidnapper instructs his victim that she can defy him and make things difficult or she can "take part in an adventure that fate has given you." A kidnapped woman is carried kicking and screaming onto a private jet. A man touches a woman's nipple through her shirt, without permission, and puts his hand into her pants.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

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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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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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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Families can talk about why 365 Days has become so popular despite its less-than-stellar script, editing, plot, and direction. Do you think the depiction of pretty people having sex is enough to generate such popularity, or is something else at work?

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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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The Next 365 Days (2022) – Movie Review

The Next 365 Days is the sequel of 365 Days (2020) and 365 Days: This Day (2022). It is directed by Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes . It stars Anna Maria Sieklucka , Michele Morrone and Rebecca Casiraghi .

Well, the “thuggish” version of 50 Shades of Grey is back, this time with a couple of conflicts.

Laura and Massimo are going through a crisis, while Nacho tries to separate them at all costs.

9 1/2 Weeks meets Barbara Cartland, and together they go low-budget. They even stole a scene from the former.

This is a sad attempt at making a high-concept movie that has neither a plot nor a premise good enough to build an interesting storyline. It is 1hour and 46 minutes of a soapy projection of a relationship, and the unhealthy power dynamics therein, there is a lot of sex, which is the point of the movie – staged sex scenes. The dialogue is as simple as it gets, there is hardly any dialogue.

The cast is made up of attractive people, who we almost pity in the lack of artistry they are allowed to prove in this production. It must be difficult to do one sex scene after another, and then have a short dramatic dialogue concerning some serious trauma they have been through. Is this the erotic version of RRR?

The upside to this film: the photography is not bad. As mentioned they are aiming for the high-concept feel. The setting is good, the camera work is well carried out…

There are also, long sequences show-casing the charm of the Sicilian night…. call it product placement if you will. Filming the bucolic streets and great nightlife, with cool music in the background. They are small intermissions with ads for the island.

If only it had a satirical element to it, it would perhaps have an edge, and be more convincing and have a modicum of chance to be taken seriously.

Our Opinion

A simplistic, half-baked imitation of 9 1/2 weeks. With a dialogue that is practically inexistent.

Release Date

August 19, 2022.

Where to Watch The Next 365 Days

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Michele Morrone / Massimo Torricelli

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Otar Saralidze / Domenico

Simone Susinna / Nacho

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Because there isn’t enough material to support a whole movie about Laura’s struggle to decide between Nacho and Massimo, many erotic moments are inserted into the story.
The performance in The Next 365 Days is identical to that in the first two movies.

Many things were altered by the epidemic, but OTT content consumption was the biggest one. The first movie in the sensual thriller trilogy starring Michele Morrone, 365 Days, garnered a sizable fan following during the lockdown, turning the Italian actor into an overnight phenomenon. Despite receiving negative reviews from critics, the film adaptation of Blanka Lipiska’s debut book attracted a sizable audience who were enthralled by the intense drama it featured and actresses like Michele Morrone and Anna Maria Sieklucka.

Like any other business, Netflix quickly approved the sequels to the first movie when it became a success. Months after the release of the trilogy’s second instalment, 365 Days: This Day, in April, the third instalment, The Next 365 Days, is now available. The needless threequel has also been eliminated, as though the producers didn’t want us to forget how horribly the second movie was made. If there’s one lesson we’ve taken away from these erotic thrillers, it’s to not hold your breath for a deep narrative or dialogue. Follow the numerous turns that the makers toss your way, but be ready to not be surprised by them.

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For those who saw the sequel, the shocking conclusion of This Day, in which it appeared that Laura (Anna Maria Sieklucka) was going to pass away, it turns out that she survives, and the story picks up in the third instalment with her and Massimo (Michele Morrone) being in separate locations following the difficulties they faced in their relationship in the previous picture. The threequel begins with Laura (Sieklucka) travelling to Portugal with Olga Magdalena Lamparska to attend the Lagos fashion fair. There, she unexpectedly runs across Nacho’s (Simone Susinna) sister, who convinces her to think about giving him time to explain his side of the story. Nacho makes an effort to widen the chasm between Laura and Massimo while they strive to rebuild their relationship and get back their faith in one another. What remains to be seen is whether Laura will decide at the movie’s conclusion.

The problem with this threequel is that it seems to have the least purpose of the three. Because there isn’t enough material to support a whole movie about Laura’s struggle to decide between Nacho and Massimo, many erotic moments are inserted into the story. Of fact, these private moments are the franchise’s trademark, and without them, viewers would quickly stop going to the movies. As one might anticipate given the series, Laura, who is struggling to decide which course to take, even ends up experiencing a dream threesome sequence, as if that would provide her with the answers she was seeking.

One of the film’s most unsettling elements is that songs are played nonstop when scenes change, giving the impression that the music is used much more frequently than any conversation. With a two-hour running duration, the movie hardly manages to offer anything redeemable; in fact, it merely raises the question of why we are still forced to this complicated love triangle so soon after its terrible sequel. However, I will confess that there is one aspect of this movie that I appreciate, and that is the decision of the filmmakers to forgo the third novel’s plot events in favour of coming up with their own conclusion. Given that the movie’s ending is ambiguous and we don’t see Laura’s response when Massimo asks her, “Baby girl, are you back?” the directors chose this course because they knew that the book’s version would face harsh criticism.

We’ll have to wait and see if the unclear conclusion points to the potential for a fourth instalment in the series. The third instalment is basically a disappointing love triangle that lacks the substance to make itself into a full feature picture, in contrast to its sequel which attempted to turn things around with its twists and erotica. It’s an even more intolerable outing when the film’s flimsy premise and cringe-inducing dialogue are combined. There is no relief as the film keeps lowering its standards, from the love advice Laura receives from her mother until the conclusion when Michele’s Massimo offers a remark on love.

The performance in The Next 365 Days is identical to that in the first two movies. Even Michele Morrone’s rugged good looks, which previously attracted a lot of admirers in the past, can’t save this movie from its inevitable failure. You can tell what you might be in for if you decide to see this two-hour movie by the fact that it makes no attempt to tell a story that has something to say. You could rewatch the entire Stranger Things Season 4 finale in the same amount of time. Just saying, choose wisely.

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365 Days Ending Explained: What Happened And What's Next

Warning: SEVERAL SEXY SPOILERS are waiting for you in this article, so be sure to come back once you've watched 365 Days to completion!

365 Days has caused quite the uproar since it was released on Netflix on June 7. The Polish / Italian film had eyeballs poppin' all over the world for its intense sex scenes and has had plenty of detractors because of how we get to those sex scenes in the first place. The film is based on the Polish book of the same name by author Blanka Lipinska, and follows mob boss Massimo Torricelli and his love Laura Biel... who's been kidnapped by Massimo and given a year to fall in love with him, with him saying he'll let her go if she doesn't reciprocate his feelings in that time.

Yeah. It. Is. A . Lot . But, many people fell hard for the tale of mobsters, kidnapping and very explicit-looking yacht sex, so let's just break down what happened at the end of the sultry saga that is 365 Days, and take a look at the next book in the novel series to see what might be coming up in a possible sequel.

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What Happened At The End Of 365 Days?

As if there were truly any doubt, Massimo ends up getting his wish shortly before the end of the film. After sending Laura back to Poland when he needs to get her away from some mob business (which does not make Laura happy), he goes to get her back. She's mad at him, he turns his sex appeal up to 11 , they anger bang up against the window of her super fancy high-rise apartment, and Laura tells him she doesn't need the full 365 days, because she's in love with him. Yay!

With that detail settled (apparently, only two months past the kidnapping date), Massimo proposes marriage the next day (after slyly slipping an unfortunately small ring onto a sleeping Laura's finger), to which she agrees. The lovebird kidnapper and kidnapee head back to Italy, and Laura convinces Massimo to let her best bud Olga (Magdalena Lamparska) come to the secret nuptials. When Olga arrives, Laura confesses to her that she's pregnant (no surprise with all that naked yacht time ) and they take a joyful trip to shop for Laura's wedding gown. But, trouble is afoot.

While heading back to Massimo's compound, and talking about horny Italian men, Laura takes a break to call her intended. As they talk, Massimo's right hand man, Mario (Bronislaw Wroclawski), who's being driven back to Massimo's, gets his own phone call. But, instead of being good news, Mario's told that "they" are going to kill Laura, and not just sometime soon, but right freakin' now. Mario then tries to call Massimo, but he's on the phone with Laura. When Mario finally arrives, the call between Laura and Massimo has gone dead after her car enters a tunnel, the look Mario gives Massimo tells him that something is very, very wrong, and that's when our kidnapping mobster with a... heart of gold falls to his knees with tears in his eyes.

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How Close To The Book Ending Is 365 Days?

I've got news for you. I'm good enough at the language I was raised with to write full sentences, but there is no way I can read Polish. It's good, then, that there are plenty of other people who can, and according to them, 365 Days the movie ends in much the same way that 365 dni the novel does. Even better, each book picks up right after the other, so that cliffhanger we were treated to is resolved quickly at the start of the second book, which is titled either This Day or That Day depending on the translation you land upon.

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According to Newsweek , a Polish language Instagram Q&A with Anna Maria Sieklucka and Magdalena Lamparska (Laura and Olga, respectively) confirmed a few weeks back that the sequel for 365 Days was given the greenlight and would have begun filming in August. Obviously, those plans have now been put on hold, and the stars didn't know when filming would be able to begin. Luckily, though, there's still plenty of material from each of the sure to be sex-filled sequel novels which could be pulled together for at least one more movie, whenever they do get to go into production.

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What Could Happen In The 365 Days Sequel?

Well, this is the million dollar question right now, isn't it? As a reminder, if you're not a fan of spoilers , I would suggest backing out now , because I'm about to blow your mind with some details about what might be coming in the sequel, according to the book series.

OK... as you may have suspected, Laura and her baby survive the attempt on her life (along with Olga, by the way), but, when you're embroiled in steamy a romance with one of the heads of the mafia, you cannot expect life to sail along smoothly. The second book, apparently, will give us some additional time with secondary characters, but will also introduce more mob intrigue and (Dunh, dunh, DUNNNHHHH) Massimo's freakin' evil British twin, Adriano! What. The. Actual. FFFFFFFFF?

Even better (or, worse, depending on how you personally rate these shocking developments ), the romance at the center of the the story will take quite a hit when Laura, wait for it... gets kidnapped by another hot mafia don! And, he's also super sexy and taken with our Laura! Guess what, you guys? Pregnant Laura "falls in love" (heavy on the quotes there, as far as I'm concerned) with this asshole, too! So, we'll be in the middle of peak mob boss love sandwich by the time a 365 Days sequel wraps up, if they decide to follow the plot of the second book.

I'd tell you some of the details that O Magazine spilled about the third and final book in the series, titled Another 365 Days , but I'm going to spare you and wait to see just how close the planned second film hews to the second book in the series, so we don't get ahead of ourselves. Are you still excited at the possibility of a 365 Days sequel? Let us know in the poll below!

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Will There Be a 365 Days 4 Release Date & Is It Coming Out?

By Abdul Azim Naushad

The Next 365 Days was released on Netflix almost two years ago and fans have often wondered whether a 365 Days 4 was coming out and if there was a release date .

Here’s all the 365 Days 4 release date information we know so far, and all the details on when it is coming out.

Is there a 365 Days 4 release date?

365 Days 4 does not have an official release date, but it could likely be announced in the future.

As of April 2024, there has not been any confirmation from Netflix about 365 Days 4. However, Michele Morrone, the leading man of the 365 Days franchise seemingly teased a fourth movie back in 2022, 19 days after The Next 365 Days hit Netflix. He took to Instagram to put up a post with pictures of his character Massimo Torricelli saying “The end of something is always a little bit sad.. but.. who knows….”. This immediately caused widespread fan speculation suggesting a sequel was on the way.

However, it is important to note that the three 365 Days films adapted the stories from the three books written by Blanka Lipinska, which seemed to tell a complete story and Lipinska has not written a fourth book. Thus, if a fourth film were to happen, it would have to be an original story entirely.

Despite this, Blanka Lipinska, the author of the 365 Days books, mentioned in a TODAY interview in 2022 that she would be open for another film that revisited the entire 365 Days storyline from the beginning but from the perspective of Massimo Torricelli, since the first three 365 Days movies were shown from the perspective of Anna-Maria Sieklucka’s Laura Biel.

Since 365 Days 4 has not been confirmed as of writing, there is no official cast for the film. However, if it happens then Michele Morrone and Anna-Maria Sieklucka could reprise their roles of Massimo Torricelli and Laura Biel.

Where is 365 Days 4 coming out?

365 Days 4 could come out on Netflix if it gets confirmed.

This is because the first three films in the 365 Days franchise came out on Netflix. Thus, assuming a pattern repetition, 365 Days 4 could also come out on Netflix.

The first three 365 Days films are currently streaming on Netflix.

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