The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the ...
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Title: The Perfect Stranger (2011)
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| Colm Meaney | ... | Mark O'Reilly | |
| Ana Wagener | ... | Isabel | |
| Carlos Santos | ... | Amancio | |
| Natalia Rodríguez | ... | Celia | |
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Guiem Juaneda | ... | Biel |
| Pascal Ulli | ... | Klaus | |
| Kate Burdette | ... | Grace | |
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Xisco Segura | ... | Vidal |
| Santi Pons | ... | Tomeu | |
| Biel Duran | ... | Toni (as Biel Durán) | |
| Vicky Peña | ... | Francina | |
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Aina Segura | ... | Vecina |
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Carles Molinet | ... | Médico militar |
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Carme Feliu | ... | Vecina |
| Eva Martín | ... | Sandra | |
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The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the stranger's life, believing that he's going to reopen an old shop. In contrast, the real intentions of the stranger are hidden behind an old Polaroid photo, which has led him to that place in search of answers. Written by Anonymous
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SpainRelease Date:
23 March 2012 (Spain) See more »Also Known As:
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A sort of Being There movie where an Irishman who comes to a small Balearic Island town helps everyone without understanding a word they are saying...like a psychiatrist who only nods and people are cured.
The feel good cloying hallmark quality of the natives was the only thing that takes this thing down a notch or two. The PC elements... a probable lesbian who wants to join the military and repair tanks and a low confidence boy with a hearing aide (symbolic) while cooked are rather pleasantly and tastefully done. Also there is a middle aged daffy woman who wants to get pregnant (sub plot) and never figures out the Irishman (Meaney) doesn't understand her conversations with him. But people aren't this cloyingly simple. In fact what I have read at least of Corsica foreigners are regularly bombed and killed.
The Irishman was trying to find where his girlfriend died when she ran from him on a vacation years before and died falling into a cave "sink hole" that dot the area. He only has a photograph to go by and he is trying to make some closure on the tragedy.
It works best as a comedy but with a bittersweet underpinning.... It gets a solid 7....suspending disbelief for the comedy. Again the main flaw is the over done too feel good stuff.
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