Nude Tuesday

2022

1 hr. 40 min.

Comedy

Drama

Romance

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86%

29 Reviews

Tomatometer

75%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

Audience Score

The mom of a struggling middle-aged couple sends them to a couple's retreat meant to get a couple's sexual urges back up and running.

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Critics Consensus

The story may feel a bit strained at feature length, but Nude Tuesday is an impressive experimental exercise that's also frequently funny.

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Audience Member

The concept is pure genious, I would've been interested what the original script was, and what the other subtitles look like. The gibberish sounds like a legit language and the film has a great 90s Scandinavian film style to it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Farcical in concept and execution. Weak writing and direction, but acting is good. Very few laughs.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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brent m

A sophisticated silly sex comedy might sound like a contradiction in terms, yet that's precisely what this hilarious release from Down Under is all about. Director Armağan Ballantyne's second feature follows the raucously funny misadventures of Bruno and Laura, a middle-aged suburban couple whose bedroom activities have noticeably stagnated, a development that has significantly affected the quality of their relationship, as well as other aspects of their daily lives. So, to help them get things back on track, they reluctantly attend an erotically focused couples retreat, an unexpected anniversary gift from Bruno's unapologetically outspoken mother. There the unwitting uptight new arrivals encounter a self-absorbed whacked out sex guru, an array of eccentric, uninhibited disciples, farm animals trotted out to provide sensual "inspiration," and an assortment of outlandishly sidesplitting group exercises that positively slay libidinous group encounters and wilderness New Age gatherings. To top all this, though, the film's dialogue consists of complete gibberish, symbolic (and symptomatic) of the profound miscommunication between the protagonists, who habitually talk past one another. "Translations" of what's said are provided with English subtitles penned by a team of writers who've been given license to drum up lines that push humor boundaries (and that successfully manage to come across a lot funnier when read than spoken). This even carries through in the picture's musical interludes, which feature gibberesque lyrics to songs like "Sea of Love" and, quite fittingly, the Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere." Admittedly, the film starts to run out of gas in the final half hour, and its otherwise-frenetic pacing sags a bit when the narrative starts to turn more serious and sentimental. However, there's a lot more going on with this ambitious offering than one might expect, especially in the laughs department. It's quite a feat to take material that might ordinarily be considered crass and make it funny with a surprising degree of style and sophistication. Give this one a chance; you just may walk away with a sore funny bone.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Armagan Ballantyne

Director

Jackie van Beek

Laura

Damon Herriman

Bruno

Jemaine Clement

Bjorg

Chelsie Preston Crayford

Julie

Ian Zaro

Rufus

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Fionnuala Halligan

Screen International

At 100 minutes, it’s fair to say Nude Tuesday overstays its welcome a little — it’s quite slight, after all - and some of the jokes can be hit and miss. But it’s funny nonetheless.

Aug 18, 2022

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Stephen Romei

The Australian

It’s genuinely moving and that feeling is not diminished, even though one does laugh...

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 20, 2022

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Brad Newsome

Sydney Morning Herald

It’s mad and it works: a comedy in which the actors speak complete gibberish, with different comedians writing different subtitles to create different films.

Jul 7, 2022

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

It’s almost a shame they’ve bothered with the subtitles at all, as much of the comedy speaks for itself, which makes the subtitles feel rather “pushed” to lewd extremes in a bid to extract further laughs in places.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 2, 2023

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Brandon Judell

Brandon Judell (Medium)

One the whackiest offerings of the year, & that’s just for its language: gibberish. Every sound spoken by the cast is nonsensical, & the oft-hilarious subtitles, by comic Julia Davis, seemingly were not known to the actors themselves beforehand.

Aug 14, 2022

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Alejandra Martinez

We Got This Covered

Overall, Nude Tuesday is a creative leap that mostly lands. The absurdist comedy can be hit or miss, but the ingenuity of the storytelling, respectful treatment of all kinds of bodies, and talent of the actors on screen make it gel together.

Rated: 4

Jul 15, 2022

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Synopsis

The mom of a struggling middle-aged couple sends them to a couple's retreat meant to get a couple's sexual urges back up and running.

Director: Armagan Ballantyne
Executive Producer: Mark Gooder, Alison Thompson
Screenwriter: Jackie van Beek, Ronny Chieng, Celia Pacquola, Julia Davis, Jackie van Beek, Armagan Ballantyne
Production Co: Firefly Films, Good Thing Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: English (Australia)