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Manolo Caro presented Perfectos Desconocidos at the 16th FICM

Marco Mejía @MiqkelMejia

The pre-release of the film Perfectos Desconocidos took place at the sixteenth edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). The screening had the presence of its director Manolo Caro, who expressed his gratitude to the public for filling Room 4 of Cinépolis Center.

"It's a pleasure to be at the festival where those of us involved feel at home, we are filled with excitement and joy to share this film, which is a franchise and represents a celebration to the writers for us to realize that the world is small, and stories are universal."

Manolo Caro invited the cast of the film, Ana Claudia Talancón, Cecilia Suárez, Miguel Rodarte, Mariana Treviño, Bruno Bichir and Camila Balero, whom he praised for their careers: "There has been no better way to make a film and celebrate it with a stellar cast, and they are not stellar because of the number of followers they have, but because of the consistency and credibility they have achieved in their careers. Now they are in a smart comedy; current and full of issues that concern us".

Perfectos Desconocidos is the adaptation of an Italian project of the same name, written by Paolo Genovese in 2016, and also a Spanish remake, as well as an Arabic version soon.

The story begins at a dinner where old friends decide to share with each other the content of each text message, email and phone call they receive, and in this way,  they will begin to reveal many secrets and the balance will be broken.

After the screening, the whole team answered a brief round of Q&A, in which Manolo Caro emphasized that he had "the fortune of seeing the original movie" and there he realized that he would have "loved to write that story since it went hand in hand with the stories about chaotic situations I was working on."

Mariana Treviño gave her point of view on the changes and consequences that have arisen in society with the arrival of the cell phone, a gadget that plays an important role in the film:

"The phone tends to divide and there is much to reflect because humanity is now a near slave to a device that came to stay. We are all on this disturbing element all the time. Personally, I think it has a polarity and it can also be kind because of the immediacy involved, even if it generates conflicts as we see in the film."