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  • Summary: Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin. He is a man in his prime living a solitary life in a secluded house on a beautiful island. She is radical and uncompromising. He is wise and ironic. What connects them is solitude they both see as freedom. He proposes her to work for him in exchange of food. She agrees at one condition: there will be no personal contact between them, just work. Soon the two of them become curious about each other and want both: to keep their "nothing personal" deal and to break it. Their simple life follows the cycle of days and nights, work and rest but slowly brings the two of them closer to each other. Who will be the first one to break the deal? (Olive Films)
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Dec 12, 2010
    80
    Not since "Flashdance" has a lobster dinner been seasoned with so much unspoken emotion.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    Dec 12, 2010
    75
    Dutch-born Lotte Verbeek is solid as You, a role that won her the best-actress prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    Dec 12, 2010
    70
    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.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Dec 12, 2010
    60
    With both hostility and compassion, the damaged duo slowly come to understand themselves and their respective pain-a familiar path that's energized by subtle lead performances, a tactile sense of place and surprising insight into the way people connect as they help each other heal.

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