FILM — REVIEW & DISCUSSION
The Secrets Held by Our Phones
A 2016 Italian film explores the double lives we lead through our smartphones
Warning: This article contains spoilers
Perfect Strangers (Italian: Perfetti sconosciuti) is an Italian movie that has been remade in twenty four languages, earning a Guinness World Record for the most remakes of a film. There are slight variations in the plot lines of each movie along with different titles, but the premise remains the same: a group of friends playing a dinner table game that ends with unexpected results.
We are first introduced to Eva (Kasia Smutniak) and her husband, Rocco (Marco Giallini). There is a brief scene in which we witness the strained relationship between Eva and her daughter, who is going out for the night, after Eva finding condoms in her daughter’s backpack. It is the same night that the couple has planned a dinner party for a small group of friends, including Lele (Valerio Mastandrea) and his wife Carlotta (Anna Foglietta), newlyweds Cosimo (Edoardo Leo) and Bianca (Alba Rohrwacher), and Peppe (Giuseppe Battiston).
