"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.
