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Image courtesy of The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival.
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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Nude Tuesday
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"A conservative, middle-aged couple try to save a floundering marriage with a trip to a new-age relationship retreat awash in sexual liberation and — on at least one day of the week — extreme nudity. They decide to give their failing marriage one last shot before calling it quits.

Arriving in an idyllic sanctuary nestled in the mountains, they uncomfortably enter a world of laughter workshops, tantric dance, sexual liberation and emotional animals,
helmed by the charismatic guru Bjorg Rassmussen. When new temptations start to take hold, the couple are pushed to the brink forcing them to look within to find what they really want. But will they bare all to get it?

A delightfully bonkers comedy set on a fictitious island (one that, funnily enough, bares an uncanny resemblance to various parts of New Zealand’s South Island), and shot entirely in a made-up language, this is a universal story of love and miscommunication, misinterpretation and reconnection, reminding us that love laid bare, needs no translation."

Source: The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival

Notes

  • Scripting and original screenplay by Jackie van Beek (New Zealand author), dialogue filmed in gibberish, and three versions of English subtitles provided by one British (Julia Davis) and two Australian authors (Ronny Chieng and Celia Pacquola) without viewing the original screenplay. 

    Screened at Sydney Film Festival using Davis' subtitles. 

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