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After surviving the war in Yugoslavia, taciturn nurse Hanna (Sarah Polley) heads to Ireland for some rest and relaxation. But when she hears about an oil-rig accident off the coast, she agrees to tend...( read more 
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MCT:September 29, 2008Isabel Coixet's sweet, funny, sad, odd little romantic drama is about a Yugoslavian factory worker (Sarah Polley) who volunteers to nurse a temporarily blind oil rig worker (Tim Robbins) back to health after a blindness-causing accident. The two leads are terrific, giving performances which pulse with tragedy and frailty, and Coixet ("Things I Never Told You," "My Life Without Me") crafts a wonderful improbable connection between them.
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MCT:August 2, 2008A fantastic character study of an Eastern European nurse tending to a temporarily blind severe burn victim upon an oil rig off of Ireland. Sarah Polley does an amazing job as always, convincingly portraying the nurse, of channeling the character as a survivor of the war in the Balkans...and Tim Robbins equally as fantastic as the burn victim that has emotional baggage...and great supporting cast to show what a strange place an oil rig can be, isolated from the rest of civilization, as if it's a beacon to folks with problems in their lives that they're trying to forget/escape.
Even as the all the characters are very distant to one another, we see that Hanna (Sarah Polley's character) in her own way delves into Josef's (Tim Robbins' character) life secretly...and eventually comes around to opening herself up to Josef just before they part ways, when he's helicoptered off for surgery.
It's really a poetic movie, very well acted and written, touching in how even those that feel they are without redemption can find peace.
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