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‘Nowhere Special’ Review: Understated Terminal Illness Drama Earns Your Tears
In 'Nowhere Special,' Uberto Pasolini delivers a subtle, caring statement on navigating grief through terrific leads James Norton and Daniel Lamont.
As a 35-year-old, terminally ill single father in Northern Ireland, John (a quietly powerful James Norton) grieves his impending demise and the inevitable fact that he will vacate his four-year-old son Michael’s (Daniel Lamont) life permanently and prematurely. For instance, instead of burdening the young newcomer Lamont with mawkish dialogue lines, he telegraphs Michael’s innocence through a charmingly faded red baseball cap, placed awkwardly over the little one’s bowl cut and bangs, making him look both impossibly cute and vulnerable at once. Much of that journey surely rests on the shoulders of the terrific Norton (“Happy Valley,” Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women”) and Lamont, who jointly give heartrending performances as characters navigating an unbearable situation.
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