How many things can happen during a dinner? The Invite – The pleasure is all ours is the movie in the hall since September 16, a comedy in which you laugh (the same) and you reflect (the same) on life, the choices we make, the conventions that we are obliged to follow. Adaptation of the Spanish film Sentimental, which had an Italian version with Neighbors of Home (with Claudio Bisio), The Invite tells the normal life of an adult couple who invites to dinner the neighbors of the upstairs curious to discover what is hidden behind their hectic sexual life.
Placed in a typically theatrical dynamic, enclosed in the same apartment, in a film built only on dialogues and silences, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, Penelope Cruz and Oliva Wilde impeccably hold the film. In particular, Rogen demonstrates for the umpteenth time that he is no longer just a comedy movie character, but that he has an acting maturity that still seems to be underestimated, showing himself perfect in the roles on horseback between comedy and drama, in which he can transform the insecurity of his characters into a disruptive force.
Joe and Angela (Rogen and Wilde) are a tired couple, who is usually together. And this aspect the public seizes it in the perfection of the first scenes together, in which the two fill the silences of words to avoid having to reflect on themselves and on the other. There is no need to share among them, how much the need to avoid loneliness prevails while life continues to flow always equal, as if nothing could ever change. Those new and mysterious neighbors, Pina and Hawk, who wake up every night doing what they don’t do for a long time, arouse Angela’s curiosity and Joe’s discomfort.
The invitation to dinner becomes for Angela a way to try to live with reflected light, while for her husband it could be the opportunity never had, to ask that couple to stop breaking her routine. But all those plans we make before we meet each other, they crumble thanks to others who have their own personality and a little thought. But when you open up to the unknown, to the unknown, you never know what could happen.
The Invite is a comedy built on silences, unspoken, on Angela’s modesty and the frenzy of the sensual Pina, on Joe’s rhetoric and on Hawk’s provocations. Because when you close a door, you never know what can happen inside other people’s houses.
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