Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet's second collaboration with actress Sarah Polley (following 2003's acclaimed MY LIFE WITHOUT ME) carries an important and timely reminder about the fate of torture victims, so deftly wrapped within a touching and beautifully acted melodrama that the result is the furthest thing from a didactic message movie. European factory worked Hanna (Polley), who's hearing-impaired, works in a pulling large rolls of industrial twine from spindles and stacking them on a forklift — a dreary, repetitive job she seems content to perform. Hanna's silence, the bizarre regularity with which she eats the same precisely apportioned lunch (chicke...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
115 mins