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Perfect Strangers

Thriller | 2003 | 95 min |

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When Melanie goes home from the pub with a handsome stranger, she’s captivated by his charm and attentiveness.He sails her away to his ‘castle’- a rundown shack on a deserted island. But when seduction becomes deception and passion becomes possession, Melanie realizes that she has been kidnapped.

Torn between fear and desire, Melanie must escape – but her ardent admirer has other plans...

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The Sunday Telegreph

”Director Gaylene Preston has produced a little gem here, a film of great atmosphere using its actors to the full. This is a roller coaster of a ride loaded with thrills and spills galore and Prston proves that New Zealand filmmakers with a different view of the world can turn anything – romance included – upside down.”

The Sunday Telegreph

Screen International

”Perfect Strangers is an adult, finely acted feature that cleverly subverts audience expectations as the intriguing narrative unwinds. Just when we think we know where she is going, veteran writer/director/producer Preston changes emotional gear with the invaluable assistance of Australian actress Rachael Blake (Lantana) who delivers a bruising, naturalistic performance of considerable nuance and brilliance. Paired with a moody, menacing Sam Neill, Blake is a certain award contender.”

Variety

”Blake is sensational as the woman who proves to be a survivor, while Neill brings his customary charm, plus a dash of menace, to the role of the obsessive would-be lover.”

SBS Movie Show

”PERFECT STRANGERS is one of the best films to come from New Zealand in recent years.”

ABC

”Perfect Strangers is a wild combination of thriller and fable. It plays with our expectations of the handsome prince fairy story, and the stalker story as well. It has a great deal to say about the craving for love, and its wellsprings. 'Falling in love,' says Preston, 'is to fall into a kind of madness.' I cannot tell you more about the story. But I can guarantee this film will surprise you. It confirms Rachael Blake as a magnificent actor, and Gaylene Preston as a filmmaker at the height of her powers.”

The Daily Telegraph

”A macabre romance played with chilling conviction by its handsome leads.”

Salient

”Gaylene Preston has created a film that leaves a lot of it’s Hollywood counterparts for dead.”