The Wait * * * *

Don't look now, but Flip doesn't even now what this film is about.

The Wait is about grief - I think.  Or maybe it’s about insistence: waiting for the one you love even when you know they’re not coming.

The Wait is an interesting and fascinating film that creates its own sense of logic.

Juliette Binoche plays a french woman living alone in a beautiful villa in Sicily. Her son has just died and she is desperate with grief and a sense of loss.  

A young woman arrives at the Villa. She was invited there by her son for Easter.  So the grieving mother takes the young woman in but does not tell her that her son is dead.  The young woman is given the impression that her boyfriend has been detained but will arrive shortly.  By not letting this visiting young woman know that he is dead she holds on to a delusion that her son is alive - after all he has a visitor.

The house and garden caretaker watches with concern as the tension and deception increases.

It being Easter, much is made of the Christian symbols of death and resurrection.

Although not entirely logical The Wait is a satisfying and fascinating drama.

It is quite beautiful to look at too