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Two young guys, an apartment, one prepairing to leave it , the other desiring to move to it.

The help for package , talks about the ambiguous future for both.

Correct acting, nice cinematography, fair dialogue.

Good end.

And delicate touch of Dostoyevsky short story.

The allusions, the small clues about guys, the dialogue and the temptation to kiss his new friend animating Gabriele are well used for a touching story about loneliness, incertitudes, youth.

Portrait of Joshua and Gabriele , it represents, in same measure, wise crafted image of a generation looking for pieces of stability for future.

The result - honest and fair A story of friendship, a letter , return to home for Joshua, new aspects of present for Gabriele discovering , more profound, his presumed new buddy.

"White Nights" reverses genres from the original story from Dostoyevsky's short story where a man and a woman have countless and lovely conversations each night while she awaits for her loved one to return, and from those moments love starts to grow between them. Here, two male teens are the ones involved in this scenario. Gabriele (Emanuel Iacono) sees a sign about a room to rent so he goes to see the place barely knowing that another person already lives there. He meets Joshua (Sebastiano Fumagalli), who's about to get evicted since he's behind payments yet he invites Gabriele to check out the room. The idea is to help the other guy move, so they spend nights packing things and talking about lots of things, including Joshua's girlfriend and his troubled relationship. And I guess you can see where this is going, but with some bittersweet surprises on the way.

Here's a lovely short film, full of heart and emotion, that raises curiosity among viewers who mosly want good things to happen between them. They're adorable together even when there's some distance and lots of awkward moments between those two perfect strangers. They have a great chemistry together. However, as a big fan of the original short story I sensed that something was missing here (but the hopeful ending of the movie was a good point). I think more situations could be explored, or more developed. It all felt too simple but in another way it also felt quite real. Anyway, it's a very enjoyable film that makes audiences reflect the power of emotions and how deal with them, at times hiding it or other times showing it because we need to show them to other people. 7/10.