SOMEONE ELSE

Year: 2006
UK: Soda Pictures
Cast: Stephen Mangan, Susan Lynch, Lara Belmont, Chris Coghill, Shaun Dingwall, John Henshaw, Lydia Fox, Bridget Fry, Frank Perozo, Lydia Piechowiak, Isobel Pravda
Director: Col Spector
Country: UK
UK: 78 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, moderate sex and sex references
UK Release Date: 7 September 2007 (Limited Release)
UK Distributor

Synopsis

Now in his thirties, photographer David (Stephen Mangan) has for some time been happily dating Lisa (Susan Lynch)... but increasingly he's dreaming of Nina (THE WAR ZONE's Lara Belmont), a tempestuous free spirit who seems to represent everything his loving, stable girlfriend is not. So what's a man to do?

From this all-too-familiar premise first-time writer/director Col Spector has created a funny, sad and above all discomfortingly honest look at the male gender's seemingly infinite capacity for self-deception - superbly performed by a talented ensemble cast, and directed with admirable economy and confidence. This well-crafted British independent might, if you're a bloke, have you looking awkwardly at your shoes and wondering how someone got inside your head to find this stuff out....