Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
As for the many loose ends the director leaves, you can either tie them or leave them loose, either way is fine since the experience as much as anything is what Antoniak was after.
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Netherlands, Ireland · 2009
Rated PG-13 · 1h 25m
Director Urszula Antoniak
Starring Stephen Rea, Lotte Verbeek, Tom Charlfa, Ann Marie Horan
Genre Drama, Thriller
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When Anne abandons her life in bustling Holland for the solitude of the Irish countryside, she thinks she is ready to embrace loneliness, but that all changes when she meets a local hermit named Martin. The two find they are kindred spirits and form a strong bond, despite sharing no personal details of their lives.
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Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
As for the many loose ends the director leaves, you can either tie them or leave them loose, either way is fine since the experience as much as anything is what Antoniak was after.
Largely thanks to Verbeek's performance, full of physical grace notes and small details, she manages to involve the audience, even though her character is more a movie creation than one based in real psychology. Rea, largely giving his usual mumbling Oirish perf, proves a selfless support, and provides an anchor to the movie.
In her tale of a brusque, prickly young Dutch woman who inexplicably cuts herself off from the world, except for a heavily circumscribed relationship with a man whose isolation is less voluntary, writer-director Urszula Antoniak hits a lot of expected notes.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Not since "Flashdance" has a lobster dinner been seasoned with so much unspoken emotion.
With both hostility and compassion, the damaged duo slowly come to understand themselves and their respective pain-a familiar path that's energized by subtle lead performances, a tactile sense of place and surprising insight into the way people connect as they help each other heal.
Dutch-born Lotte Verbeek is solid as You, a role that won her the best-actress prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
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