What a surprise: another Italian film about young women on the brink of adulthood, made by a middle-aged male director. Giuseppe Piccioni’s cliché-riddled “These Days” determinedly sticks to the playbook, trying hard to dress up phony scenes in the guise of realism, without success. The premise alone, about four friends taking a road trip to Belgrade, feels like out-of-touch melodrama convinced it’s “a story of today”: one co-ed is an angry lesbian, another has cancer, a third is pregnant, and the fourth has boyfriend issues. Who is this for, exactly? Surely teens and twentysomethings have had enough of hackneyed characters meant to represent their inner psyche droning on with lines like, “We thought we had our whole lives ahead of us.” Add insufferable humming on the soundtrack, and “These Days” — banality encapsulated in two little words — has its days numbered.
The metaphorical road signs couldn’t be writ in larger letters when,...
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- 9/8/2016
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety - Film News
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