Late Shift review – pressure is on in badly understaffed hospital as compassion shines through

Leonie Benesch brings a credible presence as Floria, a nurse crushed under an intolerable workload in frantic medical dramaConsidering her film The Teachers’ Lounge gained a best international feature film Oscar nomination, maybe Leonie Benesch should be better known. (As well as playing a teacher in that film, she was also the interpreter in the Munich Olympics drama-thriller September 5 and played Prince Philip’s sister Cecilie in Netflix’s The Crown.) Benesch could be cornering the market in tough, competent, hardworking young women doing their best in a stressful situation.Here she plays Floria, a nurse (and a single mum) working the late shift in a gleamingly modern but evidently badly understaffed Swiss hospital. Floria has to hit the ground running from the very beginning of every working day. (The original German title is Heldin, or Heroine.) Writer-director Petra Volpe has adapted the autobiographical novel Our Profession Is Not the Problem. It’s the Circumstances, by German nurse turned author Madeline Calvelage. It’s shot using classically Aaron Sorkin walk-and-talk lines, with Floria exchanging terse technical dialogue with colleagues in the corridors. And there’s almost a real-time single-take aesthetic, although there are conventional edits. British audiences would be within their rights to compare it to Casualty or Holby City. Continue reading...

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