Synopsis
After years toiling in bit-parts, an actress finally gets her break with a leading role in a spy thriller. The part is challenging, not least because it calls for explicit sex scenes, and the director is often hard on her. But both the industry and the press think the results are sensationally good.
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Cast
- Wu Ke-XiNina Wu
- Vivian SungKiki
- Hsia Yu-chiaoGirl No. 3
- Ming-Shuai ShihDirector
- Tong Chih-WeiProducer
- Lee-Zen LeeMark
- Hsieh Ying ShiuanCasting Director
- Rexen Cheng Jen-ShuoNina's Assistant
- Shang-Ho HuangAssistant Director
- Fabian Tzyy-Chyn LooProducer's Assistant
Recommendations
- 90
The New York Times
This startlingly evocative, complex and confrontational new film is not interested in justice or didacticism. - 90
The New York Times
This startlingly evocative, complex and confrontational new film is not interested in justice or didacticism. - 83
IndieWire
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. - 83
IndieWire
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. - 80
Variety
Nina Wu is a thrillingly complicated sort of corrective, living out the progressive ideal of giving the victim back her story, even when that story, told with lacerating self-criticism and a deep undercurrent of dismay, includes a great deal that falls far short of progressive ideals. - 80
Los Angeles Times
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. - 80
Variety
Nina Wu is a thrillingly complicated sort of corrective, living out the progressive ideal of giving the victim back her story, even when that story, told with lacerating self-criticism and a deep undercurrent of dismay, includes a great deal that falls far short of progressive ideals. - 80
Los Angeles Times
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.
