For the first five minutes of Causeway, Jennifer Lawrence is on screen but completely silent. It is clear that a tangle of emotions lies just beyond her glazed eyes, but her face remains blank, save for the occasional flicker of anguish.
In these opening moments, with the help of carer (Jayne Houdyshell), her character Lynsey slowly learns how to walk and eat; later she wakes up in the night vomiting and screaming. She is casually offensive, blurting things out that she can’t control.
