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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 6 September 2007

Single-minded photographer’s blurred vision

SOMEONE ELSE
Directed by Col Spector
Certificate 15

AN appealing slice of urban angst, here’s a modest British essay with the familiar streets of Camden and Hampstead providing an authentic background to a sweet-sour tale of loving and losing.
In the opening minutes David (Stephen Mangan, pictured) dumps his girlfriend (Susan Lynch), goes through the heady throes of uncommitted bachelorhood, and when things don’t work out as planned spends the rest of the film covered in frustration and guilt.
Suddenly his answerphone has gone blank. Girls in wine bars don’t throw themselves at him as he expected. He scours the local pubs with his best pal (Chris Coghill) searching out talent, growing increasingly desperate as it becomes apparent the feisty ladies just don’t want to know.
Yet he’s a charmer, a portrait photographer whose glamorous job should make him a surefire success on the rebound.
But modern life isn’t like that, as he finds to his cost.
Writer-director Col Spector slowly tightens the emotional screws, and draws us into David’s world so that we, the audience, seem to be overhearing his intimate discussions from the next table.
As for Stephen Mangan, who reminds me of a young Elliott Gould with his looks and sex appeal, he is most definitely an actor to watch out for in the future.

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