My Little Eye and Trauma director Evans takes an about-turn with this pensive, fantastically acted character drama set in suburban Canada. Alan Rickman plays Alex, an ex-con who is brought to the house of Sigourney Weaver’s autistic Linda by accident — a car accident.
His sense of responsibility, and perhaps loneliness, causes him to stick around despite the often amusing (to us) annoyances of Linda’s obsessive compulsive disorder. A haunting look at people with social problems who come together through grief, it can be sentimental and self-consciously quirky, but is generally touching. Despite the flaws of Trauma, Evans is establishing himself as one to watch.