As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient. Writer-director Georgia Bernstein's debut feature examines caregiving as both vocation and compulsion, and the fine, dangerous line between them.
At the start of her new job in a luxury retirement community, Eleni (Cemre Paksoy) is drawn into a series of scam calls targeting the elderly residents, a pull she can't quite name or resist. As the community's strange rhythms close around her, she grows increasingly intimate with her elusive patient, Douglas (Bruce McKenzie), until the line blurs between care and desire, devotion and delusion.
"At times, Night Nurse recalls both Steven Shainberg’s Secretary and Cronenberg’s Crash." Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
"Night Nurse is exactly the kind of sweaty, smart, deeply uncomfortable erotic thriller that feels destined for cult status. It’s not just provocative—it’s pointed, funny, and disturbingly honest about the desires we pretend don’t exist." Dan Tabor, Cinapse
"...in a genre with too few recent entries and even fewer good ones, it's a glass of water in the desert." Sam Adams, Slate