Nude Tuesday [2025]

As the lascivious, ego-driven guru Bjorg, Clement is in peak comedic form, delivering an "uncomfortably funny" performance that anchors the retreat's bizarre activities.

Nude Tuesday (2022) is an audacious, absurdist New Zealand comedy that manages to be both deeply uncomfortable and surprisingly heartfelt . Directed by Armağan Ballantyne and written by star Jackie van Beek, the film follows Laura (van Beek) and Bruno (Damon Herriman), a middle-aged couple in a stagnant, sexless marriage who attend a New Age relationship retreat in a desperate bid to reconnect. The Gimmick: A Language of Gibberish Nude Tuesday

The film's most striking feature is its dialogue: the entire cast speaks a completely invented gibberish that sounds vaguely Nordic. As the lascivious, ego-driven guru Bjorg, Clement is

Van Beek and Herriman ground the absurdity with genuine vulnerability , preventing the film from descending into mere caricature. Final Verdict Nude Tuesday - Rotten Tomatoes The Gimmick: A Language of Gibberish The film's

In post-production, different comedians (most notably Julia Davis) were invited to write their own subtitles without knowing the original script, effectively creating several different versions of the film's "story".