Friends and Strangers

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Friends and Strangers

2022

1h 24m

Comedy

Drama

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Friends and Strangers is a comedy-drama that explores displacement, disconnection and ennui in contemporary Australia through the eyes of two upper-middle class millennials.

Alissa Wilkinson

Vox

08/05/2022

Feels a little bit like a throwback to the indie mumblecore movement of the aughts, but with a distinctive and slightly absurdist Australian twist.

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David Stratton

The Australian

03/23/2022

4/5

Tantalisingly enigmatic.

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

03/10/2022

4/5

For all its quizzical menace, Friends and Strangers is an oddly enticing film, not immune to the allure of affluence and leisure and committed to gratifying the viewer with a stream of small surprises.

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Victor Esquirol

Otroscines.com

09/07/2022

... An hour and a half of tableaux vivants that combine Costumbrism with surrealism, filtered by the contemplation of placidity. [Full review in Spanish]

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Jane Freebury

Jane Freebury

04/11/2022

4/5

A distinctive, witty take on youthful alienation among the affluent and the hip, with an affectless main character on a journey of little consequence that captures the zeitgeist of disaffected youth who havent yet figured out how to be

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

04/05/2022

Mumblecore style films can be challenging if the story and characters arent strong enough, and this loosely-structured, talky Australian indie walks the line at a dangerously close pace. The disposable dialogue is toughest thing to sit through.

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04/11/2022

This movie felt like it didn’t have anything at all to say . I don’t know who read this script and thought let’s make it a movie . The acting was all good and everything but what was the point? 1.6

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Synopsis

Friends and Strangers is a comedy-drama that explores displacement, disconnection and ennui in contemporary Australia through the eyes of two upper-middle class millennials.

Director: James Vaughan
Producer: Rebecca Lamond, Lucy Rennick
Screenwriter: James Vaughan
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Production Co: Leitourgia Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Australian English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 25, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 24m