Common Friends is a lively, sparkling comedy, with an involuntary referral to reality that ends up capturing all attention, on couples bursting between loves, friends, lovers and weddings. As they told us the four protagonists Raoul Bova, Francesca Inaudi, Beatrice Arnera and Luca old in the interview you find on our social channels, YouTube and at the bottom of this article, in the relationship of couple it would always be better not to wear many masks. Yet when lies are at the base of the relationship it is almost impossible not to do so.
Unfortunately, the film is heavily influenced by the events in reality with the relationship born (maybe) right on the set of the film between Beatrice Arnera and Raoul Bova, spread through social media immediately after Bova’s audio messages to another girl who led to the end of her relationship with Rocio Munoz Morales. In parallel Arnera had left Andrea Pisani, with which in March he will be at the cinema in a film written by Pisani and directed by Francesco Mandelli that apparently Pisani said that he was shot just as they were leaving. What does this have to do with the film? Of course nothing but at the same time cannot even avoid talking about it because in Friends Municipal Arnera and Bove are friends with so many unspoken.
Yes, because of the film, in fact, you can comment very little without running in spoiler. In the first 20 minutes of Common Friends we are catapulted in a room full of tensions, subvocal screaming phrases, insinuations, battutines that I hide much more and that we will discover over time. What can be said is that Marco (Bova) is a chef of an important restaurant, married to Giulia (Inaudi) who makes the designer for children’s clothes, have no children and live in Verona in a luxurious house with swimming pool. Veronica (Arnera) arrives at dinner bringing Claudio (Vecchi) with whom she is about to marry.
An impulsive decision that will lead her to collide with a haughty mother-in-law and attached to traditions, while she seems to have more problems than anything else with her partner and does not have true relationships of friendship in her life. Common friends is lively, sparkling, swirling but full of exaggerated dialogues, of situations a little unlikely. An attempt to make a rom-com different from the usual between misunderstandings and not said that however appears too forced in choices and situations.
The choice of actors is a bit different. We are in Verona and the only to have a minimally Nordic inflection is Arnera, in others the Romanity, however clean in Italian, is perceived and is evident. As much as seeing and promoting other locations is beautiful, the strange effect is strong because it ends up creating non-places where everything is possible. As should be reflected on the age of characters and actors in relation to relationships. In the end Friends Common is a romantic comedy perfect for streaming.
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