Jamie passion and passionfruit!

What a movie!  About half way through I was seriously wondering where this imaginative but slow-moving film was going.  Set on an oil-rig Hanna (Sarah Polley), an Eastern European with little to say and a hearing aid is nursing burns victim Josef (Tim Robbins).  There are a bunch of weird characters on board and all we know about Hanna is that she worked in a factory for four years with a perfect record but nobody gets on with her.  As life on the rig carries on, the nurse and patient begin to open up and in one cathartic scene we finally learn the story Hanna has been holding onto for so long.  And it’s a big one!  Suddenly the film becomes something else and our waiting is justified.  Great screenplay on the subject of pain and communication or the lack of it from Isabelle Coixet, great direction, Polley is a star as we always knew, Robbins is great and it is nice to see Julie Christie in a supporting role.  It may not be the best film we will see this year but the long scene and various other moments make this a worthy contender for honours later on as it has won awards all over Europe.

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