Nina Wu

Name: Nina Wu
Genre: Drama
Released: March 11, 2020
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Jen-Shuo Cheng, Ke-Xi Wu, Kimi Hsia, Lee-zen Lee, Li-Ang Chang

2020

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Film Movement | Release Date: March 11, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Jen-Shuo Cheng, Ke-Xi Wu, Kimi Hsia, Lee-zen Lee, Li-Ang Chang, Ming-Shuai Shih, Ping-Chun Cheng, Shang-Ho Huang, Vivian Sung, Ying-Xuan Hsieh

Summary: After toiling for years in bit-parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu (Ke-Xi Wu) finally gets her big break with a leading role in a spy thriller set in the 1960s. The part, which calls for nudity and explicit sex scenes, is made all the more challenging thanks to the director’s unending belittlements. While seemingly on the brink of professionalAfter toiling for years in bit-parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu (Ke-Xi Wu) finally gets her big break with a leading role in a spy thriller set in the 1960s. The part, which calls for nudity and explicit sex scenes, is made all the more challenging thanks to the director’s unending belittlements. While seemingly on the brink of professional triumph, Nina’s psychological resolve begins to crack under the pressure. As she rushes to her childhood home following a family emergency, Nina begins suffering paranoid fantasies that a mysterious woman is stalking and attacking her. As Nina clings to memories of happier times, it seems that there is one crucial memory that she is repressing.… Expand

Director: Midi Z

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Beatrice Loayza

Mar 29, 2021

This startlingly evocative, complex and confrontational new film is not interested in justice or didacticism. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Apr 1, 2021

Here, the same genre tropes that are ordinarily primed for cheap thrills and big twists are bent towards the opposite effect, as the film blurs the line between reality and delusion in order to make audiences question a trauma so disorientingly awful that it might otherwise be easy to dismiss altogether — even for the people who suffer it first-hand. Read full review

Sarah-Tai Black

Apr 2, 2021

Truth and delusion intermingle within this space, materializing not as spectacle or doubt, but rather as an embodied, if not literalized, study of the ways in which women attempt to intellectually and emotionally make sense of their experiences of exploitation. Read full review

The Playlist Caroline Tsai

Apr 1, 2021

Clearly, the director takes great risks off-screen. If only they were as great on the screen. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Mar 29, 2021

While his previous drama, The Road to Mandalay, showcased his keen eye for social realism, Nina Wu is suffused with visual poetry – all stark-reds and grainy yellows – and a dream-like (or nightmarish, depending on how you view it) atmosphere. It’s a portrait of a country experiencing significant sociopolitical changes. By focusing on its filmmaking industry, Z takes advantage of the opportunity to experiment visually, thematically, and narratively – at times, to the film’s detriment. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 3, 2021

Director Midi Z and his muse (Ke-Xi Wu is in most of his films, including “The Road to Mandalay”) take us on an increasingly fraught and stylized trip down the rabbit hole of “big break” success and the guilt and emotional scars that linger from what Nina might have endured to get there. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Apr 1, 2021

Some will say that Nina Wu is a courageous work for exposing the abuse powerless young actresses face when trying to break into an acting career, while others will no doubt feel that, by what it shows, the movie remains part of the problem. As unevenly presented here, it’s a wobbly tightrope. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Nov 16, 2020

How far will one go to achieve success? That's the question put to an aspiring Taiwanese actress who has been struggling for years for a breakthrough. But, now that a big opportunity has emerged, can she bring herself to do what's asked of her? And can she do so if the requirements goHow far will one go to achieve success? That's the question put to an aspiring Taiwanese actress who has been struggling for years for a breakthrough. But, now that a big opportunity has emerged, can she bring herself to do what's asked of her? And can she do so if the requirements go against her own sensibilities? "Nina Wu" addresses these issues both through her own direct experience, as well as the images of her vivid dreams, bringing her face to face with herself, her internal conflicts and her ability to push her own limits, themes reminiscent of films like "Black Swan" (2010). Director Midi Z's latest is never dull, providing viewers with a captivating tale through its many changes of mood, quirky humor and fine performances, even if it does begin to lose control of the room somewhat toward the end. Nevertheless, audiences will hang on every frame as they wonder where this evocative character study is going and how it will all turn out. While this may be one of the stranger offerings of recent years, it's freshness, timeliness and distinctiveness are curiously and eminently satisfying.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Jul 18, 2021

“They don’t just want to take my body, they want to take my soul!”

Exposing the abuse and misogyny that actresses, and really pretty much all women face in their workplace is not something new. But exposing it as far as the film industry goes, is perhaps more striking since the uncovering“They don’t just want to take my body, they want to take my soul!”

Exposing the abuse and misogyny that actresses, and really pretty much all women face in their workplace is not something new. But exposing it as far as the film industry goes, is perhaps more striking since the uncovering of all the dirt the Me Too movement began.

Nina Wu may not be the story many want to see or hear, but it's one that demands attention for situations that the industry around the world would love to minimize.… Expand

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