Squared Love Everlasting Review: Directed by Filip Zylber, the third instalment of the Squared Love movie series aka Milosc do kwadratu bez granic released on August 23, 2023. The Polish romantic comedy film stars Adrianna Chlebicka as Monika, Mateusz Banasiuk as Enzo and Ina Sobala as Ewa in the lead roles. Written by Wiktor Piatkowski and Natalia Matuszek, the movie also stars Tomasz Karolak, Monika Krzywkowska, Miroslaw Baka, Helena Mazur and others in pivotal supporting roles.
With a runtime of 102 minutes, the Polish movie is now available for streaming on Netflix with English subtitles and dubbed audio. The third film focusses on Monika and Enzo starting a new chapter of their life as they plan out their fairy-tale ending with plans of getting married. However, a “bombshell” revelation takes over everything, attempting to endanger everything they’ve planned together.
Squared Love 3 Movie Review Contains No Spoilers
Squared Love Everlasting Review: Discussion
Over the journey of the three movies, the titular duo has significantly explored some major character developments on their way to find themselves moving towards the traditional storybook conclusion of their story – getting married to each other. But as most films have already done this a ton of times before, a third piece is brought into the same happy-go-lucky poster image of a perfect love story to test its limits and strengths.
In this film, it happens to be Ewa, one of Enzo’s many ex-girlfriends. By then why is she the special one among them all? It’s because when Enzo decided to set the date for his wedding with Monika, the pastor willing to get them married (who also happens to be his uncle), demands him to resolve matters with an ex-flame of his, i.e. Ewa.
So Enzo embarks on a long journey to discover which particular Ewa it is that he needs to sit down with to talk things over. When he finally gets to her, he realises that it’s not just her whom he needs to consider before his wedding, but another young member of the family – the supposed son he had with her.
Kicking off with a hackneyed premise, the film goes on to test the leading couple and their individual arcs, asking them relevant questions as to what it is that they really want in life. Simultaneously, both of their respective professions also take new turns, which add to their individual character sketches. However, despite all the work being put in, these characters never emerge as interesting or even someone you’d like to vouch for, mostly because they appear to be reflections of several other characters we’ve already seen being situated in the rom-com genre.
Neither is the plot an original one, nor is it willing to turn away from the well-established cliches of the lot. Moreover, the characters don’t seem to add any new spice to the story either. Adrianna Chlebicka and Mateusz Banasiuk are attractive choices to play the titular characters in a long-running franchise, but sadly that’s all they are from the suface. The series seems to have gotten over the love shared between the two, and it shows in the way the third movie drags out their ostensible love story, which frankly neither has the spark, nor the spice to make us believe in how much they love each other.
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Their unconvincing love saga is further made into a hotchpotch mixture with certain supporting characters on the side, who again don’t have anything to add. The new entry of Ewa’s character seems to be thrown in to liven things up and in hopes of pushing the main couple on an angsty road of complications, which actually never makes one feel anything.
Even though the third chapter tries its all to include the whole family building aspect into their lives, the narrative just falls into a common stretch of boredom, never really asking things that matter. We as the audience are simply expected to go along with what’s been handed to us on the platter and believe that Enzo and Monika’s love story is the best thing that could happen to them or to us viewers, when its clearly not.
The movie never tries to break the mould of the pre-established cliches and archetypes and let the characters flourish as actual people. It just magically comes to the conclusion that they’ve changed and their ideologies about life have changed, but that journey of change itself is completely thrown out of the picture for us to see any valuable development or growth in them.
Squared Love Everlasting Netflix Movie: Final Thoughts
To sum it all up, the third Squared Love movie has nothing new to offer, and frankly, I’m really getting weary of seeing the same plot being refurbished by Netflix and even other OTT platforms to push for the rom-com genre. Despite the large majority of movies falling into this category being a fusion of cliches in the long run, still many of them at least tried to say something new.
However, with the endless list of movies being released on these platforms without any significant break, it’s almost starting to look like we’re watching the same content over and over again. Even if this film has been visually directed in the way that fits this path of storylines, the visuality of it is not enough to keep things going.
Milosc do kwadratu bez granic is now streaming on Netflix.