My first chance at viewing this via HBO Max and am quite horrified that the English overdubs are so bad. I gave up in horror after 20 minutes with the awful translations and unintelligible Latvian characters. Then the soundtrack while often beautifully done is often intrusive and completely off in tone compared to what we're watching.
UPDATE: So I did find an Italian language version to watch that unfortunately had the exact same translation only as subtitles but somehow I could deal with that better than hearing badly accented english not in sync with their lips. I did get thru the movie and so for that at least moved my rating up to 6 stars from 4.
I ended up being very impressed with Marco D'Amore who played Ciro and also directed himself. But perhaps if another director was looking over his shoulder he might have persuaded Marco that more than 3 scenes where Ciro does nothing but glower dramatically and smoke a cigarette is far too many . . .
UPDATE: So I did find an Italian language version to watch that unfortunately had the exact same translation only as subtitles but somehow I could deal with that better than hearing badly accented english not in sync with their lips. I did get thru the movie and so for that at least moved my rating up to 6 stars from 4.
I ended up being very impressed with Marco D'Amore who played Ciro and also directed himself. But perhaps if another director was looking over his shoulder he might have persuaded Marco that more than 3 scenes where Ciro does nothing but glower dramatically and smoke a cigarette is far too many . . .