Perfect Strangers Page #5

Synopsis: On a warm summer evening, a loving couple, Rocco, a plastic surgeon and Eva, a therapist is expecting his long-lasting friends to share a pleasant evening over dinner. Everything is in order: the first course is ready, the roast is in the oven and the table is set. Without a doubt, this is going to be a gathering of true friends and the waiting comes to an end when the first couple arrives. The bell rings and it is Lele and Carlotta, followed subsequently by Cosimo and Bianca; the only one missing is Peppe, their friend who is still single. Before long, the group is complete and without any delay, they begin the feast. Surely, this is a nice but somewhat usual dinner, when suddenly someone makes a proposition: to place their mobile phones on the table and like a Russian roulette, whatever arrives (texts, WhatsApp messages, calls) they would share it with the others. Clearly, this uncommon truth or dare game has no point among friends who share everything with each other, nevertheless,
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Paolo Genovese
  13 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
Year:
2016
97 min
3,513 Views


her birthday in Circeo.

- She was 10, right ?

- Yes, 10.

- Seems like yesterday.

- Great...

"Time flies by so fast !"

has been said.

- "This used to be a farm..."

- "All Blacks have rhythm."

Don't forget

"Pippo Baudo is very professional".

- That's enough, guys.

- Hold it, first text.

- It's mine.

- Shall we read it ?

Yes.

"I want your body" ?

Who's it from ?

- I don't know.

- We're off to a good start.

What does it mean ?

- I don't know.

- Who sent it ?

The number's not in my phone,

I don't know.

Must be the wrong number,

I don't know.

What do I do ?

- It's the number from the text.

- Answer it.

- Answer it.

- Yeah, right.

- Put it on speaker.

- Yes. Take it easy.

I'll put it on speaker.

Hello ? Who is it ?

Hello ?

No answer...

Hello ? Who's that ?

Who is it ?

It's f***ing me.

- What is wrong with you ?

- It was a joke.

- F*** off !

- What kind ofjoke is that ?

- You're such a...

- He's a loser.

- You're a loser.

- Really.

- Just playing around.

- I knew it was a joke.

- Go f*** yourself !

- Bullshit !

Give me my phone, I'm going out.

- Say bye at least.

- Bye.

- Bye, Sofia.

- Bye, Sofia.

- I said hello to them before.

- She said hello before.

- She's not always like that.

- She's often worse.

They're unbearable at that age.

- What were you like at her age ?

- Me ?

- What was he like ?

- I remember what he was like.

He was... help me out.

Superficial.

Perfect adjective. He only loved

soccer and something else.

- Don't listen to him, darling.

- His mom was desperate.

- Distraught.

- Whereas their mothers were happy.

I'm not sure I'd be a good mother.

- Why, are you pregnant ?

- No, no...

Are you trying ?

- You could say that.

- Congratulations then !

There's nothing to celebrate yet.

Well, at least someone's screwing !

We haven't even eaten

the first course yet, easy !

What's the big deal ?

Nobody here would be shocked.

So ?

After all these years of marriage,

no one screws like in the early days.

They're trying for a baby,

it's not...

A more sober toast then. To children

and the meaning they give our lives.

Bummer,

I preferred the screwing toast.

Peppe, you're never satisfied.

I don't like this idea that life has

no meaning ifyou don't have kids.

- It's sometimes a convenient decision.

- What do you mean ?

You have a kid, get on with life

and think of nothing else.

- I don't want a kid just to do that.

- Why else then ?

- For a thousand reasons.

- Give me one.

- One. To complete the couple.

- For example.

So two people can't be happy

without depending on someone else.

- You're a pain !

- The other day we argued about God.

It's the same thing in the end.

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