{"id":44125,"date":"2024-06-14T19:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T23:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44125"},"modified":"2024-06-10T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T00:36:43","slug":"nu-2022-film-maudit-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/14\/nu-2022-film-maudit-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Nu (2022) [Film Maudit 2.0]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NU_STILL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NU_STILL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NU_STILL.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NU_STILL-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NU_STILL-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I imagine Olivier Labont\u00e9 Lemoyne\u2019s is going to lend itself to all kinds of interpretations. Maybe it\u2019s just abstract for the sake of being abstract? Who knows? In either case, \u201cNu\u201d succeeds in being as oddly creepy as it does in being kind of silly, exploring the idea of fear vulnerability. The whole concept of beings that look like nudists plays on the whole nature of voyeurism and the reluctance by many to engage in it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are tons of inexplicable moments in \u201cNu\u201d that never actually amount to much, save for some interesting horror that gets under one\u2019s skin. Olivier Labont\u00e9 Lemoyne is very good at setting the stage for a classic horror scenario where the pair of characters are in the woods alone and prey to literally anything lurking in the dark. Although there\u2019s the established thrill seeking element with the wife, there\u2019s not a ton of explanation as to why and why this particular spot meant more than anything else to her? There are a lot of plot points tossed out including this tribe of nudists, and the wife\u2019s functioning on seizure medication, and the wife\u2019s inherent curiosity with what\u2019s lingering outside of their car.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that nothing is ever fully explained leaving the audience so much room for their own ideas that may or may not be correct. In either case, while \u201cNu\u201d left me lukewarm, Olivier Labont\u00e9 Lemoyne is a solid director who is very good at setting up creepy set pieces. His moments of claustrophobia and isolation are beautifully staged and the idea of this whole sense of vulnerability becoming their undoing is an intriguing idea.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish we\u2019d have gotten a firmer sense of what was unfolding<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year, the 5<sup>th<\/sup> edition of Film Maudit 2.0, Highways&#8217; showcase and celebration of outr\u00e9 films, runs Thursday June 12<sup>th<\/sup> to Sunday June 16<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine Olivier Labont\u00e9 Lemoyne\u2019s is going to lend itself to all kinds of interpretations. Maybe it\u2019s just abstract for the sake of being abstract? Who knows? In either case, \u201cNu\u201d succeeds in being as oddly creepy as it does in being kind of silly, exploring the idea of fear vulnerability. The whole concept of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1284,12],"tags":[259,367,477,501,938],"class_list":["post-44125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-dark-comedy","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44127,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125\/revisions\/44127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}