KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Desertman84 Between Strangers is about three women who find themselves in an emotional crises with regards to the men that happens to be a big part of their lives.It stars an ensemble cast that includes Sophia Loren,Mira Sorvino,Deborah Kara Unger,Pete Postlethwaite,Klaus Maria Brandauer,Malcolm McDowell and Gérard Depardieu. It was directed by Edoardo Ponti,who happens to be Loren's son.Olivia takes care of her husband John,who is on wheelchair.Despite her old age,she still wanted to pursue a career as an artist.But her husband does not want to listen to her stories about it and she finds solace from Max,a French gardener.While Natalia is a news photographer that is assigned to do work in Angola.She took a picture of a child orphaned during war.Her well-known photojournalist father made her famous for it but she is haunted by the fact that she wasn't able to save the child's life.Meanwhile,a musician named Catherine has never resolved her hate towards her father,who killed her mother by beating her to death.When her father was released from prison,she wanted to kill her father.But she does not know that he has changed for the better.The film tackles three themes:hope,redemption and forgiveness.This was shown by the three main female characters in Olivia,Natalie and Catherine respectively.Although the story could have been interesting,we get into one cliché after another with the three main female characters trying to fight their own personal demons.Added to that,there were really no great performances due to underdeveloped characters in it despite the fact that we have a talented cast on the film.It was obvious that the film tried to rely on the films famous faces particularly the gorgeous and age-less Sophia Loren.Would she have accepted doing this modest film if her son wasn't the director?

FlorisV This movie was better than expected, well acted and the little dramas were sincere. It's got Deborah Kara Unger AND Mira Sorvino plus many other high caliber actors in small parts. But there's some negatives that keep it from greatness.The 3 vandals were too disturbing for this kind of film and made me want to twist their necks. No such justice in the movie.The connection between the three female leads is too far fetched and virtually non-existent. The ending does not make any sense, why are these 3 women waiting at the same table at the airport, they all have different destinations. The little girl makes no sense other than being a poorly constructed plot device to link the three women. Unnecessary too because this story already has a link between them: they're on a crossroad between the past and the present, up to something new in their life.Also, the photographer accidentally meeting with an Angolian, as was mentioned here before, is WAY too coincidental.It seems that this kind of storytelling has become popular with Short Cuts and Magnolia, of which the first is by far the best.

Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) I caught this on a recent airline flight. I had seen the dreadful reviews given it when it played the Toronto Film Festival so was prepared for appalling schlock. Considering it was Sophia's son's first effort as a director (though admittedly surrounding himself with a stellar cast from Sophia cashing in some major chips)he extracted good performances from everyone. A very light story involving three disparate women is gracefully laced together in the end as they come to their own conclusions as to what their lives should be about. 6 out of 10.

terras-1 I enjoyed attending the North American premiere of "Between Friends" at the Toronto International Film Festival (September 2002), but without the star-studded event -- attended by Sophia Loren, Deborah Kara Unger, Mira Sorvino, Pete Postlethwaite, Director Edoardo Ponti, and others -- the movie would only have been mildly interesting. Comparing the movie with the other films at the festival, I gave it a generous 5 stars and the movie might not have deserved even that. However, I admit that even the worst movie I saw at Film Festival received five stars from me. All the films at the Festival seemed to have a little something, but I just wish this movie had had a little more of that something.If readers are interested in seeing a 2002 movie starring several different actresses in the leading roles, I would rather they saw the French movie "8 Femmes" (8 Women) which was a humorous and surprisingly musical mystery directed by François Ozon.In contrast, "Between Friends" had its pretty moments, but was rather unsatisfying at the end. Hopefully, director Edoardo Ponti (Sophia Loren's son) will gain more experience and courage, so that he will grow beyond the merely pretty and the merely nice.