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.

Jared Richards

The Age (Australia)

Sep 21, 2026

4/5

...Friends and Strangers’ witty, increasingly absurd vignettes may feel as directionless as its characters. But the film...links the characters’ self-indulgent emotional avoidance to Australia’s own reluctance to wrestle with its violent colonial origins.

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Alissa Wilkinson

Vox

Aug 5, 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

Mar 23, 2022

4/5

Tantalisingly enigmatic.

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Victor Esquirol

Otroscines.com

Sep 7, 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

Apr 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

Apr 5, 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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Apr 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

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