Fwends is a platonic; entirely improvised comedy from Australian director Sophie Somerville that pairs up the mismatched career-driven but on a break Em and the permanently chill, relaxed and uncaring Jessie. But as the pair stroll around Melbourne on their reunion weekend and run into one incident after another: a strange encounter with a clown; a hunt for coffee, leaving the house and forgetting the keys – as well as key differences on science and fact vs. opinion – what follows turns into an entirely improvised farce that is one of the better Before Sunset homages, and almost feels as good as Richard Linklater’s classic itself.

That’s no small accomplishment. Emmanuelle Mattana and Melissa Gan are the beating heart of Fweinds, their natural chemistry embracing in the script like good

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