Tim Roth gives “what may well be
the performance of his career” in
this “sombre, intimately disturbing”
character study, said Peter Bradshaw
in The Guardian. The actor plays
David, a Los Angeles home-care
nurse assigned to those who are
disabled or in the last stages of a
terminal illness. There’s no great
sense of narrative propulsion as he
goes about his work, tending to a woman dying of AIDS (Rachel
Pickup) and an architect who has suffered a stroke (Michael
Cristofer), said Nigel Andrews in the FT: the scenes are slow, with
sparse dialogue and no soundtrack.
Yet the film becomes increasingly
“hypnotic”, reaching a climax when
David tells a stranger that his wife
died of AIDS, a claim that we know
to be untrue, said Donald Clarke in
The Irish Times. It’s then that we
realise that his apparent altruism
masks more complex motives, linked
to his own experience of personal
tragedy. Though the story “proceeds in the lowest of keys, our
nerves never settle”, said Guy Lodge in Time Out. This is a
“sensitive, slow-developing bruise of a film”.
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