{"id":15161,"date":"2022-08-19T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15161"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:34:56","slug":"friends-and-strangers-2021-james-vaughan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15161","title":{"rendered":"Friends and Strangers (2021, James Vaughan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Is he a bit of a weirdo?”
\n“No, I think he’s just earnest, like one of those sincere guys.”<\/p>\n

People are saying “mate” and “no worries,” and somebody “has a lie down” – this must be Australia. This is the kind of indie cinema where every scene is shot from the coolest angle they can manage – not quite The Girl and the Spider<\/a><\/em>-level, but I approve. Almost not worth keeping track of all the characters and their intersections (centering on Ray and Alice), but just when you think it’s gonna be about a platonic roadtrip, the second half goes to unexpected places with paranoid Under the Silver Lake<\/a><\/em> vibes.<\/p>\n

Confirmed: Australia<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

Chloe Lizotte in Cinema Scope:<\/p>\n

Once Friends and Strangers<\/em> ultimately reveals itself as an absurdist comedy, it retrospectively becomes clear that the film’s momentum has stemmed from its accumulation of seeming non-sequiturs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Is he a bit of a weirdo?” “No, I think he’s just earnest, like one of those sincere guys.” People are saying “mate” and “no worries,” and somebody “has a lie down” – this must be Australia. This is the kind of indie cinema where every scene is shot from the coolest angle they can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,187,3044,2755],"class_list":["post-15161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-australia","tag-james-vaughan","tag-parrots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15185,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions\/15185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}