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In Georgia Bernstein\u2019s alluringly listless \u201cNight Nurse,\u201d something is afoot at a luxury retirement community. Residents have been receiving troubling calls from people pretending to be their grandchildren, swindling them out of thousands of dollars. But in Bernstein\u2019s film, the classic grandparent scam mutates into something more sinister, twisting the viewer in its senile sleaze with all the nonchalance of a lovestruck teenager, wrapping a telephone cord around their finger, talking until the sky turns black.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNight Nurse\u201d is as flirty and fleeting as a high school crush \u2014 intense enough to make an impact but staked more on possibility than actual sensation. When the facility\u2019s newest nurse, Eleni (Cemre Paksoy), is tasked with caring for a difficult resident, Douglas (Bruce McKenzie), she finds her duties upended and reversed by Douglas\u2019 persuasive charm, indulging in the sick comforts of his attention. The two forge a deal: She\u2019ll pose as the helpless grandchild, while he sexualizes the thrill of their calls.<\/p>\n

Bernstein is reluctant to pathologize either of her twisted subjects. \u201cNight Nurse\u201d is more about the microcosm of this sleepy retirement community \u2014 where money and power still have influence, despite their stasis \u2014 than it is the outcome of Eleni and Douglas\u2019 affair. The film is a mood piece, albeit a fascinating one.<\/p>\n

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But in the era of AI-faked voices and persistent scammers, \u201cNight Nurse\u201d has a timely edge. Bernstein examines how easy it is to be swept away by an environment where consequences don\u2019t seem real. And thanks to her hypnotic direction and Paksoy\u2019s unpredictable performance, \u201cNight Nurse\u201d gives an old idea strange new youth.<\/p>\n

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