In "Nothing Personal," Two Isolationists Thaw for Each Other

Comments (0) By Ernest Hardy Thursday, Feb 17 2011

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.

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Directed by Urszula Antoniak. Opens February 18 at Living Room Theaters, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Call 561-549-2600, or click here.

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But she does so with a gracefulness that makes the predictable a tad less foregone. Carrying only an overstuffed backpack of belongings, headed anywhere and nowhere, the never-named woman (Lotte Verbeek) encounters the perils of a female hitchhiking alone before she stumbles onto the isolated home of an Irish widower (Stephen Rea). He offers her food and lodging if she'll help him work his farm.

She accepts under the condition that they never speak, never attempt any sort of relationship. What follows, of course, is a slow chipping away of her armor as the two circle each other, tentatively connect, withdraw, then repeat the process.

The whole thing is a pleasure to watch because Verbeek and Rea telegraph volumes of subtext beneath the dialogue they're given, speaking to the human need for emotional and physical contact — and the fear of the responsibilities and costs that come with it.