Here’s a write-up for (English title: The Next 365 Days ), the third film in the controversial Polish erotic thriller series based on Blanka Lipińska’s novels. 365 Days: Este Dia – The Storm Before the Silence “Your love is the most beautiful madness I’ve ever known.”
★★★☆☆ (3/5) Recommended if you like: Melancholic romance, alternate reality plots, and emotionally devastating endings. Would you like a shorter version (e.g., for social media) or a spoiler-free summary?
The film’s central tragedy is the loss of shared history. Laura cannot remember the moments that made her choose Massimo, and watching him try to win her back without the shortcut of her memories is unexpectedly poignant. Morrone delivers his most restrained performance here, playing a man who knows he once had everything and now must earn it blindfolded. Este Dia shocked fans by killing off one of the two male leads in its final minutes. The film’s ending—a fatal shooting on a dock, followed by Laura’s primal scream—deliberately denies the “happily ever after” the first two movies seemed to promise. It’s a bleak, almost nihilistic choice that divided audiences: some called it a bold subversion of romance genre expectations; others felt it betrayed the source material (Lipińska’s third book has a different, more hopeful ending).