‘Late Shift’ Review: Leonie Benesch Is Simply Marvelous As A Nurse On The Edge In Petra Volpe’s Urgent Medical Drama – Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comAn elderly woman dies, and her three adult sons cling to each other, weeping, before turning on the duty nurse. She hadn’t seen their mother once, they blurt to the doctor.
It wouldn’t have made any difference; there is nothing Nurse Floria (Leonie Benesch) could have done to prevent a pulmonary embolism.
But the nurse flinches. It’s true. There are just two of them on the late shift and a full ward of 26 patients: Even in Switzerland, which has arguably the best health service in the world, there are serious staff shortages.
The dead woman was designated last on her round. Floria failed her. Petra Volpe’s busy, urgent cancer-ward procedural is exactly what it says it is: a shift in the life of a nurse, a pile of incidents encountered at speed.
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