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Un film di Richard Eyre.
Con Antonio Banderas, Abigail Canton, Amanda Drew, Romola Garai, Kas Graham.
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Titolo originale The Other Man.
Drammatico,
durata 90 min.
- USA, Gran Bretagna 2008.
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The cast is good -- Liam Neeson and Laura Linney -- and there's passable tension in the twists and turns of infidelity, but it all makes better sense in retrospect.
di Gary Goldstein The Los Angeles Times
Despite its respected cast, accomplished director and distinguished source author, "The Other Man" is, at best, a minor work. That's not to say this atypical hybrid of romantic melodrama and twisty thriller should be avoided; there are several effective surprises and intellectual pleasures to be had here. But approaching the film with, let's say, lowered expectations may go a long way toward appreciating what it attempts, as well as what it achieves.
Based on a short story by German writer Bernhard Schlink, who also penned the novel on which last year's excellent "The Reader" was based, "The Other Man" stars an especially sober Liam Neeson as Peter, a successful computer software executive long married to Lisa (Laura Linney), a celebrated high-end shoe designer who disappears after startling her husband with some blunt comments about marital fidelity -- or her lack thereof. [...]
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