Hannah

Hannah for me was a slow burn descent of one person's life in denial. Shot beautifully and conveys a lot of raw emotion with its stoic acting by Charlotte Rampling.

I personally felt this was a well shot film with some fantastic cinematography.

Hannah (Charlotte Rampling) accompanies her husband who surrenders to be imprisoned. She befriends her neighbor's autistic child. She becomes more isolated as even own family shuns her.

This is a slow, quiet character study. It's strictly for the arthouse crowd. Honestly, I got to the hour mark and couldn't figure out if anything is happening on the screen. I decided to watch from the beginning again. This film is not one for expositions. There is nobody explaining anything. One follows Hannah around doing stuff. It needs to declare what is going on at the beginning so that the movie is even marginally interesting. Rampling is a master and that's mostly what's worthwhile on the screen. Otherwise, it's a plot quiz that demands one's attention and rarely gets mine.

The movie Hannah is about those who live without friends. Hannah is the wife of a criminal who because of his crime is a victim. Hannah can't sleep. She is in an impossible situation, but there seem to be no redemption.

What crime has he committed? Why is Hannah met with hate?

More can't be told, it should be felt.

The movie tells fragments of a story without explaining. You'll hav eto sit back and guess.

This is therefore not a film for everybody. It's a movie for those able to feel what loneliness and compassion, and even empathy towards someone who are living a life she didn't choose.

There's a lot of Hannahs around.

Still I would have liked this film to have more of a plot. But Charlotte Rampling is faultless and riveting in her display as Hannah. She' really one of the best, and has deserved the prices she won for this role.

I really liked this movie, however, WHY was her husband put in jail?

I know silly question, have to know...

Im used to watching slow japanese movies. but didnt really found it stimulating enough as i was multitasking. imreaching the end and realizing that hteres no conflict.. i remembered a conflict from the trailer, so i start jumping back to all the meaningful scenes .. then i read the review from a guy here pointing our some more detailes i missed its wonderful in this aspect. this is exactly how i wouldve done a movie > like a puzzle, making people think. what i wouldnt have done, is create this unstimulating trial.. almost everything happening in the movie thats not tied to the conflict is level 1-2 stimulation out of 5. . thats not how it works.. the human mind needs more.