A low-key drama about faith-healing set inside a women’s prison, In Your Hands has been made according to the back-to-basics principles of Lars Von Trier’s Dogme 95 movement. Anna plays a new prison chaplain whose faith is put to the test by withdrawn inmate Kate, who’s rumoured to have God-given healing powers. Yet in the inhospitable world of Annette K Olesen’s (Minor Mishaps) desolate film there’s a price to pay for everything – even miracles.
“There’s something about God and her,” whispers an inmate after Kate cures one of the prison’s junkies with nothing but her empty hands. Priggish chaplain Anna isn’t convinced by the stories about cellblock miracles – at least not until Kate correctly guesses that she’s pregnant. When Anna’s baby turns out to have a potential chromosome defect, though, the chaplain is caught between trusting in God that her baby won’t be born retarded, aborting her pregnancy, or asking Kate to work her ‘magic’. —BBC.co.uk
