Nobody's Life (FOX LORBER)

Edited By Jason Gargano

Nobody's Life

2002, Rated PG-13

Only on film could a man live in a world with a beautiful wife and young son, a successful job as a banker and a lovely home based on a lie he strung out for years. Then again, only in such a story could said man have it all begin to unravel when he enters into a relationship with another woman. Spanish co-writer and director Eduard Cortes teams up with Piti Espanol for Nobody's Life, a true story that feels too much like a screenwriter's clichéd fantasy. Here, the loosening strands come from the knotted security of familiar details and routines of everyday existence. Cortes trusts that his audience will not need a surprise twist for additional shock value and thanks to the performances of José Coronado as the deceptive Emilio Barrero, Adriana Ozores as his unsuspecting wife Agata and Marta Etura as the young student Emilio falls for, this Life, as strange as it is, never drifts into melodrama or cheap thrills. (tt clinkscales) Grade: B+

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