"Are you just gonna stare at me?"
Adapted from a YA novel, Italian Netflix gives us this moody classy-looking crack at the Twilight market in another tale of two chiselled young men obsessing over a rather dull young woman. Orphaned as a child, Nica eventually gets adopted as a teenager from a bleak orphanage together with distant, handsome brooding piano-playing Rigel, the object of her unrequited feelings who harbours his own dark desires. Add in pretty blond Lionel, the new schoolmate who vies for Nica's affections, and the classic YA love triangle is set in motion. Muddled fairy-tale motifs drift in and out, the characters have a propensity for talking in annoying metaphor-loaded one-liners, and after an hour of creepy scenes of sexual tension you will snigger at the father's classic unintentionally funny line at the barbecue. It is somewhat glum and overwrought to the point of absurd hilarity at times, but no doubt its young target audience will take the story and its characters to their hearts fervently.
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