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Intimate Strangers (2018)

Intimate Strangers poster
Original title
완벽한 타인
Directed by
Lee Jae-gyu
Genre
comedy drama
Country
South Korea
Runtime
1h 56m
Rated
G
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 59 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Seven close friends gather for a dinner party and decide to play a game where they share every incoming message and call out loud. Secrets and lies from their relationships surface, testing their bonds.

conversation-heavytensedarkly comicrevealingclaustrophobicthought-provokinguncomfortablefast-paced

What happens

Intimate Strangers is a 2018 South Korean comedy-drama film directed by Lee Jae-kyoo and written by Bae Se-young, based on the 2016 Italian film Perfect Strangers. It features an ensemble cast that includes Yoo Hae-jin, Cho Jin-woong, Lee Seo-jin, Yum Jung-ah, Kim Ji-soo, Song Ha-yoon and Yoon Kyung-ho. The film was released in South Korea on 31 October 2018. It is a remake of the 2016 Paolo Genovese film Perfect Strangers (Italian: Perfetti sconosciuti), one of several remakes of this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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