Gnome-like Giacomo? He tumbles into bed at a party with an equally drunken super-hot influencer ( Jenny De Nucci) who digs his company between the sheets, but won’t go “public” with him.Īll the while, Marta is dealing with a long-distance affair, a jealous lover and a disease that’s running down her life clock with every passing day.Ī couple of nice moments pop up - a little pathos and a moon-eyed romantic speech.īut as the focus drifts off Marta and those it shifts to aren’t developed enough to be all that interesting. Jacopo is hellbent on finding somebody but suffering from FOMO - until he spies a hunk whom he can’t say for certain is gay. Not that he cares, being a sexual harasser, or so she’s told. Not that she’d notice, being gay and all. It’s just that none of their stories are developed all that deeply, so that’s a problem.įiery redhead Federica’s poker hustling gets her a job as an on-staff hacker at a tech firm run by the handsome Mauro ( Giorgio Lupano). Which is handy, because the sequel has a whole lot more of her friends’ love lives and somewhat less of hers. And her old pal Giacomo ( Riccardo Niceforo), aka “Gollum,” is still hanging around their corner of Turin. She still has “my two guardian angels,” her gay BFF roommates, Federica ( Gaja Masciale) and Jacopo ( Jozef Gjura). The “glass half full” girl has a brusque new doctor who doesn’t sugar-coat her doom, and her refusal to let the disease limit her life. It’s not going to help things when he takes a 10 month job in Paris, with her waiting for a lung transpant. Her new artist/dreamboat beau, Gabriele ( Giancarlo Commare) is really into her, and jealous. The sequel also loses Marta’s “five questions game,” her PA system at the supermarket come-ons and frankly, a lot of its charm. “I dumped HIM,” she insists to one and all, in Italian or dubbed into (British-accented) Englush. “Still Out of My League,” the sequel, has Marta narrating that “nothing much has changed,” except for the fact that she dumped Arturo because they had very little in common save for the physical thing. another name for cystic fibrosis.īy the end of that film, she had new hope and and a new beau, the stalked-until-he-relented Arturo. But all along, she has this other thing driving her. She had a plan, a way with witty wooing words, and a timetable. “Out of My League” was a somewhat charming but thin Netflix release of the summer before last, an Italian “Fault in Our Stars” or “Me Before You” about a plucky young wallflower ( Ludovica Francesconi) who longs to find love, some super-hunky guy.
Even in Italy that means you end with a (spoiler alert) “to be continued.”
You make a moon-eyed youth romance, it’s popular enough to inspire a sequel.
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