“Perfect Strangers is an adult, finely acted feature that cleverly subverts audience expectations as the intriguing narrative unwinds” Frank Hatherley, Screen Daily
Perfect Strangers 2003
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“This film is my wild child.
Sam was not adverse to taking creative risks and he jumped with me into this allegory of romantic love, the destructive blinding light of desire.
An extreme genre bender. ”
— Gaylene Preston
A woman kidnapped by a secret admirer turns the tables on her captor with unexpected results in “Perfect Strangers,” an intriguing, virtually unclassifiable romantic thriller fantasy. Centering on another fine performance from Rachael Blake, the Aussie actress in “Lantana,” and featuring an enigmatic turn by Sam Neill (in his first Kiwi based film since “The Piano” 10 years ago), Gaylene Preston’s generally taut and well directed pic is her best work in film to date and should result in solid business in Australasia with every chance for arthouse and ancillary in other territories.
- David Stratton, Variety (2003)