Take a lonely girl, an isolated farmer and the outskirts of
Ireland and you’ve got quite the hang-out
movie.
Nothing Personal
is an Irish produced film about a young girl from Holland, whom recently gets
out of a bad public break up and finds relief in hitch hiking the Irish coast. Under
estimating the elements of being homeless, cold and alone, she finds refuge at
a random farm house, in which she meets middle –aged widower by Martin. At
first their encounter is rocky, as Martin see’s her as a privileged intruder
and the girl seeing him as an old curmudgeon, but more and more they notice
their presence is all they have at the moment to remain sane.
Nothing Personal
is a perfect depiction of stubbornness over course of a character study. Both
characters pretend not to need each other emotionally but physically do the
opposite, giving a sense of passive aggressive freewill some of us know all too
well. You get the sense Martin pines for the girl’s beauty as the girl pines
for Martin’s belongings, but their relationship becomes more meaningful as the
reality sets in that they have one ultimate thing in common…………………….loneliness.
Now despite the fact, that the development of the
relationship could be slower and more graceful, and that there’s unnecessary
moments of gratuity. Nothing Personal is
a calming experience and when it ends, it leaves one with the feeling of loss
and strict end. It’s a movie about appreciating what you have before it’s gone.
And as a side note, Lotte Verbeek who’s the protagonist of Nothing Personal is a wonder to look at
and she’s painstakingly real in this film. She needs to be in more stuff,
preferably American stuff.
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Maurice Jones
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