365 Days
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All team (84)
Short description
Laura Biel is a sales director at a luxury hotel who travels to Sicily with her partner and friends in an attempt to repair a relationship that has lost its passion. There she crosses paths with Massimo Torricelli, a young head of a Sicilian mafia family who has taken control after his father was killed by rivals. He abducts her and gives her 365 days to fall in love with him.
The film is a Polish production directed by Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes, who also wrote the screenplay with Tomasz Klimala. It is the first feature in a series: Białowąs and Mandes went on to direct 365 Days: This Day and The Next 365 Days, both released in 2022, with Mandes continuing to direct features afterwards. Anna-Maria Sieklucka plays Laura and Michele Morrone plays Massimo, with supporting roles filled by Bronisław Wrocławski, Otar Saralidze, Magdalena Lamparska and Natasza Urbańska; 54 cast members and 84 crew members are credited.
Made for about 5 million US dollars, the film earned roughly 9 million US dollars worldwide. Audience responses diverge sharply: on IMDb it holds 3.3 out of 10 from around 108,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7 out of 10 from more than 9,500 votes. A critics' rating of 1.8 out of 10 from 14 reviews places it well below even the lower of those two audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Blanka Lipińska, the screenwriter and author of the novel of the same name (2014), which served as the literary source for the screenplay, offered to play the scene with oral sex on board the plane herself, claiming that only she knew exactly how the scene needed to be played so that the audience understood what the filmmakers wanted to convey. Her offer was declined, and an actress played the role of the flight attendant.
- Michele Morrone was given the film script to read when he had already given up on his acting career. He had just gotten divorced, leaving him penniless, and was in a severe depression, living in a tiny Italian village where he worked on a farm. About six months later, his agent called and told him that Polish filmmakers wanted to cast him as a mafia member. Morrone boarded a plane to Poland that same day.
- The filmmakers placed great importance on making the erotic scenes in the film look believable, and on ensuring that viewers could even hear whispers and the actors’ heavy breathing. They positioned the camera so it wasn’t conspicuous and didn’t rush the actors, giving them as much time as they needed. The presence of filmmakers on set was minimized. As a result, the scenes looked so realistic that some viewers seriously thought the actors were actually having sex on camera. They had to explain in interviews that this was not the case.
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