Perfect Strangers (2016 film)

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Perfect Strangers
Theatrical release poster
Perfetti sconosciuti
Directed byPaolo Genovese
Written by
Story byPaolo Genovese
Produced byMarco Belardi
Starring
CinematographyFabrizio Lucci
Edited byConsuelo Catucci
Music byMaurizio Filardo
Production
company
Lotus Production
Distributed byMedusa Film
Release date
  • February 11, 2016 (2016-02-11)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office$31.47 million[1]

Perfect Strangers (Italian: Perfetti sconosciuti)[2] is a 2016 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Paolo Genovese.[3][4] It was released in Italy on February 11, 2016.[4]

The film was a critical and commercial success, winning the David di Donatello in the Best Film Category and grossing more than €16 million in Italy. It has been remade in many countries including Spain (as Perfectos desconocidos), Mexico, South Korea (as Intimate Strangers), France, Hungary, Greece, China, Russia, Armenia, Germany and Poland.

On 15 July 2019, it was included in the Guinness World Records as it became the most remade film in cinema history, with a total of 18 versions of the film.[5]

Plot

Eva and Rocco, husband and wife, invite their best friends to dinner: Cosimo and Bianca, Lele and Carlotta, and Peppe. The hosts are living a period of crisis, a situation exasperated by Eva's conflicted relationship with her teenage daughter Sofia, who finds an outlet for all her worries and needs only with her father; Cosimo and Bianca are a couple of newlyweds, he a taxi driver and she a veterinarian, who want to have a child; Lele and Carlotta have been married for years with two children and various problems; Peppe is a divorced former physical education teacher who is currently unemployed. Peppe had promised to present to his friends Lucilla, his new partner, who unfortunately could not come to dinner. During dinner, the friends discuss a couple who recently separated because of a SMS. After telling this story, Eva challenges everyone to place their mobile phone on the table and accept that any content of the evening's communications is revealed to everyone present. After many hesitations, the friends accept.

It turns out that Rocco, a plastic surgeon, has long been in psychoanalysis, while declaring to his wife Eva, herself a psychoanalyst,that psychoanalysis is useless. Eva, on the other hand, wants to undergo breast reconstruction, to be performed not by her husband but by a famous surgeon; Rocco, after giving his daughter a box of condoms (discovered by Eva poking around Sofia's bag), gives her advice over the phone (heard by everyone) for her first sexual experience; Bianca is still in touch with her ex without her husband's knowledge, but only to help him face a new relationship; Cosimo, in addition to impregnating his lover, has an affair with Eva (but this relationship is revealed only to the viewers,with the implication that Rocco already knew about it); Carlotta, unbeknownst to her husband, has contacted a nursing home to get rid of her mother-in-law, who lives in their house; both Carlotta and Lele have online affairs.

Lele, to protect himself from the inevitable arrival of an erotic photo of his mistress, privately asks Peppe to exchange their phones, as they have the same model. So doing the womanizer Lele receives hot texts and jealous calls from a certain Lucio. Everyone therefore thinks Lele has a homosexual extramarital affair. The friends, especially Cosimo, react apparently sorry that Lele never revealed his alleged homosexuality but actually showed a deep-seated homophobia. Later, Peppe reveals the exchange of telephones, his own homosexuality and that he will not introduce Lucio to protect him from their reactions.

At the end of the evening, hypocrisy wins over reality, practicality over decency, lust and egoism over moral and honesty and for the characters the game is just as never happened. They prefer to go back to their own role game, stopped for one evening only. In fact the guests return home, after what was an ordinary dinner with friends. Everyone goes back to their own lies: Peppe is excluded from a five-a-side football match with an excuse by Lele, Cosimo and Rocco, Peppe promises that at the next opportunity he will introduce them to the non-existent Lucilla (in reality Lucio); Cosimo, in the car with Bianca, runs through the messages of his lover Marika and responds to a message from Eva, who is removing the earrings Cosimo gave her; Carlotta puts on the panties that her lover had asked her to take off and Lele secretly looks at the photo he received from his online lover.

Cast

Reception

The film was number-one on its opening week in Italy, with US$3.7 million.[3]

On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 77% based on reviews from 13 critics.[6]

Accolades

Year Award/Festival Category Recipients Result
2016 David di Donatello Best Film Paolo Genovese Won
Best Director Paolo Genovese Nominated
Best Script Paolo Genovese, Filippo Bologna, Paolo Costella, Paola Mammini, Rolando Ravello Won
Best Actress Anna Foglietta Nominated
Best Actor Marco Giallini Nominated
Best Actor Valerio Mastandrea Nominated
Best Original Song Perfetti sconosciuti by Bungaro, Cesare Chiodo and Fiorella Mannoia Nominated
Best Editing Consuelo Catucci Nominated
Best Sound Umberto Montesanti Nominated
2016 Bari International Film Festival Tonino Guerra Award for Best Scriptment Paolo Genovese Won
2016 Tribeca Film Festival Best Screenplay Paolo Genovese, Filippo Bologna, Paolo Costella, Paola Mammini, Rolando Ravello Won
2017 Vilnius International Film Festival Audience’s Favourite Film[7] Paolo Genovese Won

Remakes

  • In 15 December 2016, a Greek remake by Greek actor/director Thodoris Atheridis, Τέλειοι Ξένοι (Teleioi Xenoi), was released.
  • In 2017, Perfect Strangers was remade by Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia as Perfectos desconocidos.[8][9]
  • The Turkish version titled Stranger in My Pocket  [tr] (Cebimdeki Yabancı) was directed by Serra Yılmaz and released in Turkey on February 2, 2018.[10][11]
  • A French-language version of the film, titled Nothing to Hide (Le Jeu, lit. 'The Game'), was directed by Fred Cavayé and released in France in late 2018.[12]
  • An unofficial remake of the movie was released in India in 2018 under the title Loudspeaker in Kannada language.[13][14]
  • The South Korean remake, Intimate Strangers, was released in South Korea on October 31, 2018.[15]
  • The Hungarian remake BÚÉK  [hu] directed by Krisztina Goda was released on December 6, 2018.[16]
  • The Mexican remake Perfectos desconocidos directed by Manolo Caro (creator of The House of Flowers on Netflix) was released in Mexico on December 25, 2018 and the United States on January 11, 2019.[17]
  • The Chinese remake, Kill Mobile  [zh], was released in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2018,[18] before China on 29 December 2018,[19] and Singapore on 10 January 2019.[20]
  • A Russian remake, Loud Connection, created by the Kvartet I, was released on Valentine's Day in 2019.[21]
  • In September 2019 the Polish version (Nie)znajomi was released, directed by Tadeusz Sliwa.[22]
  • The German remake, Das perfekte Geheimnis  [de], was released on October 31, 2019.[23]
  • In 2019, an Armenian remake called Unknown Subscriber  [hy] (Անհայտ բաժանորդ) was released.[24]
  • A Vietnamese remake called Blood Moon Party (Tiệc trăng máu) was released on 23 October 2020.[25]
  • A Slovak-Czech remake called Známi neznámi was filmed in July and August 2020 and is slated for release on 26 November 2020.[26]
  • A Japanese remake called Otona no Jijō: Sumaho o Nozoitara (おとなの事情 スマホをのぞいたら) is slated for release on 8 January 2021 by Sony Pictures.[27]

As of December 2017, remakes were underway in Qatar and Sweden.[28] In February 2017, The Weinstein Company acquired the rights to an English-language remake.[29] In December 2019, Issa Rae was announced to write and star in the US remake. Rae will produce the film along with Spyglass Media Group, a subsidiary of Lantern Entertainment, which acquired the assets of The Weinstein Company after its bankruptcy.[30] In October 2018, an Arabic-language remake was announced to be developed by companies based in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Lebanon, respectively.[31]

References

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  2. ^ "Perfect Strangers". Tribeca Film Festival. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
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  7. ^ "Audience Choice Awards 2017". KinoPavasaris.lt/en. April 7, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  8. ^ ""Perfectos desconocidos" un remake de Álex de la Iglesia". Jameson Notodofilmfest (in Spanish). 27 November 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  9. ^ Zorrilla, Mikel (21 May 2016). "Álex de la Iglesia dirigirá el remake de 'Perfectos desconocidos'". Espinof (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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  12. ^ "Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers), Fred Cavayè to direct French remake Le Jeu (The Game)". Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (in Italian). 24 November 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  13. ^ Supreet, Vaalee (13 August 2018). "Film maker Paolo Genovese informed about unofficial remake Loudspeaker?". Sandalwood Cinema. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
  14. ^ "Loudspeaker movie review: Smarting with the phone". Bangalore Mirror. India Times. Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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  16. ^ BÚÉK at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  17. ^ Fuente, Anna Marie de la (2018-10-23). "Morelia: Pantelion to Release Manolo Caro's Perfect Strangers in the U.S. (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  18. ^ Launching Films | UK Film Distributors' Association
  19. ^ Baidu Baike
  20. ^ Kill Mobile Teaser Trailer | In Cinemas 10 Jan 2019
  21. ^ «Квартет И» снимает ремейк итальянского фильма «Идеальные незнакомцы»
  22. ^ "(Nie)znajomi (2019)". Filmweb.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  23. ^ Das perfekte Geheimnis, retrieved 2019-11-01
  24. ^ ""Unknown Subscriber" ("Perfect Strangers"): VivaCell-MTS is the partner of the most anticipated movie of the year" (Press release). Viva-MTS. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  25. ^ Do, Linh (27 May 2020). "Vietnamese cinemas struggle to attract audiences". VnExpress International. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  26. ^ "Za šesť týždňov natočili nový slovenský film Známi neznámi". Webmagazin. TASR. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  27. ^ 『おとなの事情 スマホをのぞいたら』2021年1月8日(金)公開決定のお知らせ (Press release) (in Japanese). Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan). 3 July 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  28. ^ "Il remake di "Perfetti sconosciuti" bloccato negli Usa per colpa di Weinstein". Giornalettismo (in Italian). 12 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  29. ^ McNary, Dave (17 February 2017). "Weinstein Company to Remake Italian Comedy 'Perfect Strangers'". Variety. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  30. ^ McNary, Dave (4 December 2019). "Issa Rae to Star in and Produce 'Perfect Strangers' Remake". Variety. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  31. ^ Vivarelli, Nick (23 October 2018). "Italian Hit 'Perfect Strangers' Set for Arabic Remake". Variety. Retrieved 30 July 2020.

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