She also plays the central role, an attractive, reflective woman named Liv who, in a wordless preface, goes around nailing sheets of paper to tree trunks in a forest. It isn’t spoiling anything to say that eventually Liv speaks again, in her own voice but not in her own words. Ms. Eaton’s dramatic imagination is strong. The visitor, a young psychiatrist named Michael (Teddy Sears), has been invited to the island by Liv’s psychiatrist grandfather, Lionel (Harris Yulin, no stranger to Shakespeare over a long and distinguished career). One reason is that the screenplay draws inspiration from the great neurologist Oliver Sacks and the provocative psychiatrist R.D.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 15, 2020 21:12 UTC