Nobody's Watching

There’s nothing fussy about any shot of Nobody’s Watching, but there’s also no shot wasted, and no shot that doesn’t communicate something vital about the city or her protagonist.

Nobody’s Watching addresses immigration issues head on, but it’s more about being set existentially adrift.

Though the script is pretty good on depicting the broken dreams that strew the path of the wannabe actor, its scope reaches wider, making it a timely portrayal (immigration, Brexit) on the multiple frustrations of being a stranger in a strange land, even when that stranger is as bourgeois as they come.

Despite some flat moments, Nobody’s Watching is consistently engrossing,

Julia Solomonoff's film ripples with a palpable sense of the sheer distance between the down and out actor at its center and his goals.