Questi giorni (2016)

Questi giorni: Directed by Giuseppe Piccioni. With Margherita Buy, Maria Roveran, Marta Gastini, Caterina Le Caselle. When Caterina accepts a job offer in a Hotel in Belgrade, her three friends decide to follow her despite their problems, starting an on the road adventure which will mark a turning point in their lives.

“There is an exaggerated sense of relevance to this film. Or a sense of portentousness; that it is rising to something. It is pretentiously self-important, although based on a simple story of friends and an event in another country. Itu0026#39;s in the frame as a rite of passage story, but it is infused with such self-regard and po-faced seriousness as to disarm its viewers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA major weakness is the length. It is at least 25 minutes too long because it does not have sufficient material and is often stuck with that nauseating trope of such films of showing a montage with a soundtrack to fill in the time and apparently reveal something. In other cases, people parking cars and doing mundane jobs, is barely interesting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is promoted with the angle that a great event occurred in a foreign city which irrevocably changed lives, but frankly, if the character had just gone to the shops to buy groceries, it would have had the same impact.”