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As Tonight You'll Sleep With Me (2022 release from Poland; 93 min.) opens, we are introduced to a family including 2 young girls. The husband isn't particularly nice to his wife Nina. To make matters worse, he decides to take off on a month long solo vacation in Iceland. Meanwhile Janek, Nina's ex-boyfriend from over a decade ago, starts a new job as Nina's assistant at a magazine. No, really! At this time we are 10 minutes into the movie.

Couple of comments: this Polish marriage drama is almost from the get-go predictable. The husband character is more than a little unpleasant. There is little subtlety. Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes From a Marriage" this ain't! Yet not all is lost. Nina is played by leading Polish actress Roma Gasiorowska and she pretty much takes the movie on her shoulders. Alas, it is not sufficient, but it does make watching the movie bearable.

"Tonight You'll Sleep With Me" recently started streaming on Netflix. As I was scrolling through the newly added titles, I stumbled upon this, and decided to give it a shot. If you are in the mood for a Polish marriage drama that is a little too predictable, I'd readily suggest you check it out, and draw your own conclusion.

I will be very specific with what shuts me down on a movie: stupidity. I accept all kind of cinematographic metaphors, because it's an art, I have imagination and also I mark movies according to the genre, so I don't decrease the mark of a well done action movie because it does have no stellar life idea. I decrease it for absolutely nonsensical action scenes.

On the very beginning, probably the main characters have an intended torrid scene. Oh well, that can be suggested (as I have seen in plenty of other movies) by a very hot start, with no need for nudity; our imagination does the rest. However, when the scene is long and she wears the bra during it (as in this case) or they have a sheet between them while torridly kissing in bed or, after a night of love he/she gets out of bed and desperately tries to hide the supposedly nude body with linen when there is no other but their love partner in the room (sometimes not even...), that is absolute nonsense: the director just made me a cheap and dumb spectator. Again, there is no need for nudity. I have seen movies where just taking the shoes off in a certain way says everything. I didn't continue watching it.

I really don't understand the low ratings on this romantic movie Called "Tonight You're Sleeping with Me" on Netflix. It was an excellent romantic film. I suspect it is because of the crappy ending. I was thinking myself.......will someone explain it to me please? How did this end? Does she stay with her husband or not? And that is why I took off a star from a 10 to a 9. Maybe I missed something. However up until that point, everything was perfect. The main male 10 years later her body image isn't the best (stretch marks for 2 children that weren't his, didn't care that she had a crappy boyish haircut, just loved her for who she was), lead, Maciej Musial was excellent in his role as the younger lover. He is handsome, loyal, does't care that1 Is it cheating? Yes. Buy why? And he loved her first, and was forced to relocate because of his love for an older woman - family interference. He never got over her and comes back a whole 10 years later, still loving her, to reclaim her, only finding out that she is in a dismal sexless marriage with 2 kids that have names that they actually picked out for their own children. So their initial love was more than just a fling - and her husband had something wrong with him. What is a woman to do???? Worth watching, but didn't like the ending.

This is yet another look at how relationships can turn upside down, how love can be hostaged by circumstances that we hardly can control because of who we are. I like the ending, which is open-ended. This just goes to show that there are no easy choices in a marriage because of a lot of considerations: one's children, work, parents and the couple's will to make their stand and/or compromise or even sacrifice.

The cast is talented enough. Theirs are thoughtful portrayals of what can happen inside a marriage. The actor playing Nina succeeds in portraying her angst and the dilemma she's facing as she weighs the ifs and buts of the momentous decision before her.

The casual commentary on why Icelanders are the happiest people in Europe is an eye opener but which fits into the ongoing narrative.

This is a quiet and a insightful film. It should be a welcome reminder of how it is to be alive and married.

I was hoping for longer sex scenes, much more clarity and a few more flashbacks. I´m barely informed about Ninas and Janeks past! Why did they break up in the first place? Do they feel some kind of sexual tension that lasts very long? What future can Nina and Janek have? I must say that the script could have been better. Or was this movie loosely based on the script?

My dear parents have traveled to Iceland. They were happy with that journey. But what made Maciek go to Iceland? Business, pleasure, the gorgeous Icelandic nature or something else? Or was it just convenient for the attempt of the story lines development? If you ask me I would answer: the nature and yes.

All in all, this wasn´t the worst movie I´ve watched. It was tolerable, but not exceptionally great.