The one thing that worked for me, albeit not in any way the filmmaker intended...the relationship between Fabietto and the bearish Armando played by Biagio Manna (who's got a full beard in most of his pictures on Instagram 🥵).
Though they are both vehemently heterosexual characters, there's a vibe there that reminded me of several similar situations in my youth of crushes on older guys where absolutely nothing happened but one-sided attraction. I would've had such a big crush on…