Daniel Mays, Danny Cunningham, Dean Lennox Kelly
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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DVD Release Date: May 8, 2007
Stats: 80 reviews
Sometimes people go through great amounts of pain and unbearable suffering, it takes a lot of time for them to be able to heal and go on with their lives. This movie helps us to understand that process and connect with other people's pain. It does it in a very slow pace, but that...( read more)
Isabel 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 perform...( read more)
Well-writen script, great acting and good score. Maybe at times the movie wants too much but somehow manages to make the story work and is not cheesy/corny despite the happyend.
A 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 Ba...( read more)
A quiet verbal crecendo in the middle of all the slow grey days. A great great movie.
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