Nadie Conoce a Nadie (Nobody Knows Anybody)

Starring:Alejandro AmenÃ¡bar, CrÃspulo Cabezas, Joserra CadiÃ±anos, Richard Henderson, Petra MartÃnez, Jordi MollÃ , Eduardo Noriega (II), JoaquÃn Notario, JesÃºs Olmedo, Mauro Ribera, Lucio Romero, JosÃ© Manuel Seda, Paz Vega, Natalia Verbeke, Anne de Luz, Pedro Ãlvarez-Ossorio
Studio: Venevision
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

"I often have the feeling that I'm passing through my life."
A Nice Thriller with Great Views of Sevilla During Holy Week
A moving thriller that gets its aim!
if considering this purchase, PLEASE READ!!!!
I Know Myself - Good, but not "Great",

Nadie Conoce a Nadie (Nobody Knows Anybody)
Starring: Alejandro Amenábar , Críspulo Cabezas , Joserra Cadiñanos , Richard Henderson , and Petra Martínez
Manufacturer: Venevision
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Silencio Roto (Broken Silence)
En la Puta Vida (Tricky Life)
Solo Mia
El Dia Que Me Amen
La Vida Que Te Espera

ASIN: B00008G8YT
Release Date: 2003-03-18

Customer Reviews:

"I often have the feeling that I'm passing through my life.".......2007-01-31

The slick stylish Spanish thriller "Nobody Knows Anybody" is set in Seville during Holy Week in the year 2000. Newspaper crossword puzzle developer and would-be writer Simon Cardenas (Eduardo Noriega) is struggling as usual with his novel when he receives a cryptic telephone message ordering him to use the word "adversary" as an answer to an upcoming crossword clue. Since the message also contained threats, Simon does what he's told, and he soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish sequence of events.

Directed by Mateo Gil, "Nobody Knows Anything" opens with a scene of a man stabbed to death with a crucifix through his heart, and this scene is one of the ideas that feeds the notion you are about to see some sort of horror film with religious overtones, but the plot moves away from the horror aspect into straight thriller territory. The film--which owes much of its style to American thrillers--is slickly produced, and the exotic settings of the sights and sounds of Seville help, but the preposterous plot with its huge gaps in logic and implausibility ultimately left this viewer disappointed and feeling a bit cheated by the experience.

I was intrigued at first by the film and drawn into the plot. However, once the plot and the mystery aspect became clear (and I can't give away too much here), the film became silly and trite. There's little character development--our hero is a flat, dull passive character, and the film's emphasis is on the thrill aspect. A slick product that is ultimately empty and really ridiculous, this film is in Spanish with English subtitles--displacedhuman

A Nice Thriller with Great Views of Sevilla During Holy Week.......2005-08-11

This Spanish film is a nice thriller. It keeps you in suspense for a good part of the film. The views of the beautiful city of Sevilla (Seville) during Holy Week (Easter) are very nice; it captured some of the essense of this special time of the year. I was there in 2004 for Holy Week, and it is truly an awesome spectacle, 24 hours a day.

The only bad part, was the "shooting scenes" down the historical narrow streets. I think this part was silly. It could have been handled with more suspense and realism (even without the use of those "guns?").

CAUTION: This DVD, released by Venevision in August 2005, is not widescreen as is the original film. The transfer quality is good, unlike an earlier release by the same company (which I have read was poor). Look for the cover with the woman within a rifle scope; this is the better version. Never-the-less, my DVD arrived with a dimple in the recorded surface, causing the movie to freeze-and-skip at the end of Chapter 9. I have returned it for an exchange.

If you want an even better version, go to ElCorteIngles.es and buy the version from Spain. You will need a special regionless DVD player.

A moving thriller that gets its aim!.......2005-06-16

At this moment Spain has become undoubtedly, in one the most prestigious countries in the Europen Comunity in what cinematpgraphy concerns. Not only a crowd of talented directors such Alejandro Amenabar, Juan de la Iglesia, but equally the consecrated Almodovar and Carlos Saura, bur besides a magnificent army of good actors, Bardem, Carmen Maura and the young promises such Eduardo Noriega and Paz Vega among others. The list is much longer but the point to remark id s the undeniable advance in the originality of the scripts.
A journalist lives pacefully thanks to his natural skills and talent, making challenging crosswords. It seems nothing escapes from his control. He lives with a roomate who eventually helps him to find some clues for his daily job.
But soon he finds a dangerous warning though his PC. Adversary must be the word he has to fill in the horizontal line file 6 for the next Saturday.
Suddenly there will be more ane more riddles, that will become in a true nightmare. Without knowing he has been chosen as the unique warrior of a very weird and complex brotherhood, inspired in ancient beliefs and inspired by the toad as a devil symbol.
The tension will increase until the smart end that will let you astonished due its originality.
Well script and splendid cast.

if considering this purchase, PLEASE READ!!!!.......2005-01-26

Interesting premise, great acting from an amazing cast. Maybe not as quite up there with abre les ojos, but still pretty good. Also and appearance or two from a very young and sexy Paz Vega.
why the 1 star? I would give it zero If I could. THE QUALITY IS AWFUL!!!!! this looks like a bootleg from chinatown.

well, this transfer was worse quality than that. If amazon would let me return it for a refund, I would be quite happy. There should be some sort of quality check before this stuff can be released legally.

I Know Myself - Good, but not "Great", .......2004-12-16

This little film from Spain has a story to tell, too bad it takes place mostly in the beginning. It deals with hidden witches covens which are scattered throughout Sevile Spain and it has as its main character, a pseudo-intellectual who writes boring crossword puzzles for the main paper, "El Hergizito". Soon he finds himself in a mysterious world of terror which he can not fathom. I was quite interested until the story became a cliche taken from American films and then it became just average on the whole. Most of the derailment took place in a scene where there are numerous men in hoods shooting laser guns in a 'game" that really looks stupid, from there, we learn that the coven of 'Satanas" wants to destroy Seville. His former roommate is the brain child of a group of degenerate loser and misfits, whom he later blows up in another absurd scene, (why kill them off?). The ending is typical and even expected, because he finds the evil guy and shoots him dead, and at the end, it was all just a novel, but we aren't sure are we?