This Polish import was #1 for 10 days, which is the 2nd highest record in Netflix history. A hunky but impossibly chauvinistic Sicilian boss becomes obsessed by a woman he sees on the beach. He kidnaps her with the deal that she has a year to fall in love with him or she’ll be released. The plot trajectory is obvious, but it’s not the story or characters that matter: The profusion of sometimes cruel, sometimes forced sex scenes reminded me of the old soft core days of Cinemax. Pretty much everything about the narrative is absurd, but the locations and lifestyles are rich. That doesn’t make up for the misogynistic attitude and extended porno-adjacent scenes (always accompanied by a terrible soundtrack).
(1 / 5)