Perfect Strangers

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Movie Info

During a dinner party, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. The attendees place their cellphones on the table and agree to make all texts and calls public in an attempt to prove that they have nothing to hide.

Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

Italian
Director:

Paolo Genovese
Producer:

Marco Belardi
Writer:

Paolo Costella, Filippo Bologna, Paola Mammini, Rolando Ravello, Paolo Genovese
Runtime:

1h 37m
Production Co:

Medusa Film

Cast & Crew

Kasia Smutniak

Alba Rohrwacher
Bianca

Marco Giallini
Rocco

Valerio Mastandrea
Lele

Edoardo Leo
Cosimo

Anna Foglietta
Carlotta

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Critic Reviews for Perfect Strangers

[A] histrionic and slightly shambolic comedy of manners and morals.

February 3, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
The acting is first-rate, as is the script. The melodramatic music is less so.

January 27, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Stephen Romei
The Australian
It might have been nastier in the hands of a less experienced director but Genovese handles it with delicacy. They might all be liars, but who's going to throw the first stone?

January 20, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald
An unsubtle chat fest stocked with immature characters ...

April 14, 2016 | Full Review…

Jay Weissberg
Variety
Perfect Strangers is a fiasco. [Full review in Spanish]

August 8, 2018 | Full Review…

William Venegas
La Nación (Costa Rica)
A tragicomedy full of truly hilarious moments, a well-acted film that manages to develop an interesting premise very intelligently during at least the first sixty minutes of footage. [Full review in Spanish]

August 22, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Sebastian Zavala Kahn
Me gusta el cine
The actors are relaxed and self assured, and there are some classic farce situations that morph into something more dramatic.

March 2, 2017 | Full Review…

Hannah Brown
Jerusalem Post
It skates by on very professional performances and a smattering of revelations that manage to subvert our expectations by about ten percent.

February 2, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

CJ Johnson
Film Mafia
Movies set in one location can sometimes drag, but this one never does, thanks to strong characters, amusing twists and sharp dialogue.

January 26, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Nick Dent
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
The delicious promise is that this dinner party will be a feast for the audience, a series of embarrassing revelations which are entertaining if you are in your comfy cinema seat, but traumatic if you are at the table

January 22, 2017 | Full Review…

Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile
Relationships falter and friendships are shredded in this techno-relevant Italian comedy of errors in which the mobile phone is revealed to be 'the black box of our lives'

January 22, 2017 | Full Review…

Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile
A relationship parable for the digital age, Perfect Strangers pits our deceitful natures against our dependence on smartphones, to mostly engaging effect.

January 11, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Edmund Lee
South China Morning Post