THE INVITE (Olivia Wilde, 2026).

Joe (Seth Rogan) is a music teacher who’s long given up on his dream of a music career and is embarrassed to be living in his late parents’ apartment. Angela (Olivia Wilde) suffers from anxiety and is sublimating all her frustrations into home decoration. She’s invited the couple upstairs (Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton) over for dinner, a shock to Joe as the sound of their orgasms keep are preventing him from sleeping. It turns out the couple upstairs are swingers. Will the dinner turn into an orgy? Will Joe and Angela find a way forward in their marriage? A very funny comedy of manners, well-directed by Olivia Wilde. I laughed out loud throughout and kept marvelling at Penélope Cruz who I find one of those stars, like Audrey Hepburn, who makes everything she does interesting, always compelling and rewarding to look at: a star, and luminous with it; on film, a creature of light. Seth Rogan is …well far from that.. but he’s got a warmth and a way of saying a line that makes his character emotionally accessible, legible and funny simultaneously. A different, though no lesser, type of gift, marvellously on display in this very funny film.

Based on a Spanish film, adapted from a play by Cesc Gay, THE PEOPLE UPSTAIRS.

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack are credited with the screenplay.

José Arroyo