Perfect Strangers (2022)

Original title

أصحاب... ولا أعزّ

Directed by

Wissam Smayra

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

+16

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Seven friends gather for a dinner party and decide to play a game where they share all incoming texts and calls out loud. Hidden truths about their relationships and private lives come to light, testing their friendships and marriages.

conversation-driventenserevealingintimateuncomfortabledarkly comicemotionally raw

What happens

Perfect Strangers (Arabic: أصحاب… ولا أعزّ, romanized: As'hab… wa'la a'az, lit. 'Friends… and no dearer') is a 2022 Arabic comedy-drama film, produced by Dubai-based Front Row Filmed Entertainment with Yalla Yalla, Beirut-based Empire Entertainment, and Cairo-based Film Clinic. It is an Arab remake of the 2016 Italian film Perfetti sconosciuti, and is the first Arabic-language Netflix original film made purely by Arab production companies. The film was directed and co-written by Wissam Smayra, his debut film in the director's seat, and stars Mona Zaki, Nadine Labaki, Eyad Nassar, Adel Karam, Georges Khabbaz, Diamand Abou Abboud, and Fouad Yammine. The film had a red carpet premiere in Dubai on 17 January 2022, and was released worldwide via Netflix on 20 January 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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