Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Nothing Personal

I never appreciated Stephen Rea
until I saw him opposite Lotte Verbeek
in Nothing Personal
a quietly intimate elegy directed by Urszula Antoniak.
Two wounded people.
A secluded house.
The beautifully austere Connemara.
She uncompromising.
He ironic.
They see solitude as freedom
and close a deal:
food for work
but no personal contact
no questions. And yet.

Stephen Rea and Lotte Verbeek in Nothing Personal (2009)