Paolo Genovese
Perfetti sconosciuti
7.7Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner. When they decide to share with each other the content of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets start to unveil and the equilibrium trembles.
- Director: Paolo Genovese
- Main Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Kasia Smutniak, Giuseppe Battiston, Edoardo Leo, Anna Foglietta
- Soundtrack: Maurizio Filardo
- Screenplay: Paolo Genovese, Paolo Costella, Rolando Ravello
Cinema Premiere: April 14, 2016
11 foreign reviews of Perfetti sconosciuti (2016)
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4 / 5
Translated from swedish: It's well-written, well-acted, with venomous dialogue and several heavy surprises, both for those around the table and for us in the audience. A chamber piece, perhaps a bedroom drama, and once the ball starts rolling, the possibilities for retreat are limited.
- Johan CronemanSwedish: dn.se »
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4 / 5
Translated from swedish: Author Gabriel García Márquez used to say that we all have three lives: a public one, a private one, and a secret one. But what happens when our secret life increasingly moves to a gadget we carry in our pocket – a kind of black box of the soul?
- Mattias OscarssonSwedish: sydsvenskan.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: As a viewer, I'm surprised right up until the end. The actors are very talented and I'm really eager to see more Italian films.
- Rosemari SödergrenSwedish: kulturbloggen.com »
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3 / 5
Translated from swedish: Bit by bit, we're drawn into the drama that alternates between comedy and tragedy. In the end, only one question remains: how will the people around the table deal with everything they've learned during the evening.
- Jens PetersonSwedish: aftonbladet.se »
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3 / 5
Translated from swedish: It's an entertaining and delightful film experience, but despite the interesting subject matter and engaging screenplay, the movie works better on TV than on the big screen, and the somewhat over-the-top scenarios make the film harder to relate to.
- Rebecka CuticSwedish: filmeye.se »
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3 / 5
Translated from swedish: What's specific about "Perfetti sconosciuti" is that the mobile phone takes center stage. It's entirely possible that Facebook, Instagram and Google know more about who you really are than your partner does.
- Mats JohnsonSwedish: gp.se »
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3 / 5
Translated from swedish: It works as entertainment. As bourgeois drawing room comedy. Not least because you can manipulate the situation in various ways, such as by swapping phones with each other, albeit at the risk of getting caught up in an even more precarious lie. The dialogue bounces quickly, ultra-quickly, and teasingly between the friends.
- Anneli DufvaSwedish: sverigesradio.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: The setup feels a bit forced – "we all have secrets" – but in some scenes it truly shines.
- Catarina BerglundSwedish: arbetet.se »
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3 / 5
Translated from swedish: The dinner unfolds at a brisk pace up there on the big screen, and it's genuinely thrilling to watch long-suppressed lies finally erupt, with the elegant ending delivering a satisfying sense of closure.
- Fredrik SahlinSwedish: svt.se »
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2 / 4
Translated from swedish: Right from the moment the phones are placed on the table, the film has signaled that it can't really handle its own concept, and I shouldn't have been surprised that the characters' revelations escalate to the most banal soap opera levels.
- Fredrik FyhrSwedish: fredrikfyhr.se »
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Perfetti sconosciuti has earned a total of 32 207 491 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
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