Intimate Strangers
Wanbyeokhan tain
Directed by:
Jae-gyu LeeCinematography:
Seong-an KimComposer:
MowgCast:
Hae-jin Yu, Jin-woong Cho, Seo-jin Lee, Jung-ah Yum, Ji-soo Kim, Ha-yoon Song, Kyeong-ho Yoon, Woo Ji, Jae-won Hwang, Ji-hoon JeongPlots(1)
Lifelong friends and married couple Seok-ho and Ye-jin, invite their close friends over for a housewarming dinner. They end up playing a game where they must share all messages and calls to their cell phones. Thought it starts off lightly, more and more uncomfortable hidden truths start to surface, make them start to feel more like strangers. (Tangren Cultural Film Group)
(more)Reviews (1)
Even though Intimate Strangers is an almost exact copy of the Italian source material, and thus I had an idea how the plot would unfold and who would end up how, I managed to enjoy the movie as if I hadn't seen the original. I liked the Italian version a lot, but the Koreans took it up a notch in my opinion. At times I had the urge to wish they wouldn't answer the phone that they wouldn't read the message, that they'd get the damn game over with, but I knew this was just the beginning. I don't know what it says about me, but I just love the subject matter. And the ending gave me goosebumps.
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