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Jan 11, 2019 · That’s the tension behind Manolo Caro’s “Perfect Strangers.” The film’s premise is simple yet made suspenseful with a 21st Century twist. On the night of a blood red moon eclipse, a Mexico City-based group of old friends and their plus ones gather to watch the astronomical event, eat, drink and gossip.
- A Hazardous Game
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- Strong Performances
- ‘Wholeheartedly Commercial Motives’
Helmed by debutant Lebanese commercial director Wissam Smayra, the Beirut-set Arabic version of Perfect Strangersadheres closely to the original Italian version (chiefly due to contractual obligations with Italian rights holder, Medusa Film). A group of upper-class friends in their mid-40s hold a dinner party to get acquainted with the new girlfrie...
Production-wise, Netflix has had a patchy start in the Arab world. Its first TV show, the Jordanian teenage horror drama Jinn (2019), was met with derision by critics and audiences alike, sparking controversy in the Hashemite Kingdom for itstame kissing scenes. Paranormal, the big 2020 adaptation of the Egyptian cult novel series, failed to become ...
Yet despite its formal timidity, the film does work on numerous levels. It has a remarkably brisk and natural flow, aided by pointed dialogue adequately adapted to the Arab setting. Adel Karam’s familiarly unsubtle turn aside, Perfect Strangers offers an eclectic collection of skilfully modulated performances that elevate the material. Mona Zaki, a...
In the wake of the public outcry, multiple Egyptian MPs and lawyers have moved to ban the film, ban Netflix, and criminalise homosexuality. And in the most surreal of actions, Egy Best, the notorious Egyptian pirating website, has refused to upload the film in protest at its “indecent content”. Like the Cannes-winning Egyptian indie film Feathers f...
Jan 10, 2019 · Film Review: ‘Perfect Strangers’ (Perfectos desconocidos) Manolo Caro's entertaining Mexican remake of an Italian hit stages a radically transparent dinner party. By Andrew Barker
Apr 14, 2016 · Paolo Genovese’s “Perfect Strangers” plays on this near-universal fear via a party game in which dinner guests share all incoming messages and calls in a recipe for awkward revelations ...
2016 1h 37m Comedy List. 77% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 82% Audience Score 500+ Ratings During a dinner party, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. The attendees place their cellphones on...
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- Kasia Smutniak
- Paolo Genovese
- Comedy
Jan 10, 2019 · Every character in Perfect Strangers underscores a potentiality of a privileged midlife crisis. Alonso (Bruno Bichir) is a surgeon married to a therapist, Eva (Cecilia Suárez), and they’re growing to resent one another’s professions and differing parenting approaches to their daughter.
Jan 9, 2019 · January 9, 2019 @ 7:00 AM. Tapping into our cell phone-obsessed zeitgeist and harnessing marital disputes for incendiary plot twists, Italian director Paolo Genovese (and a team of four other...
