A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Acting
Sarah Polley's face does three films' worth of work saying nothing.
Direction
Coixet lets silence scream louder than any dialogue could.
Cinematography
That sterile oil rig becomes weirdly, claustrophobically romantic.
Director
Isabel Coixet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sarah Polley learned Croatian phonetically for Hanna's background monologues — she didn't speak a word of it.
Coixet shot the oil rig scenes on a real North Sea platform; Robbins and Polley were genuinely isolated from crew for intimacy scenes.
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