Nude Tuesday

Nude Tuesday (2022)

a comedy in gibberish

When middle-aged suburban couple, Laura and Bruno are gifted a remote couples’ retreat for their anniversary, they decide to give their failing marriage one last shot before calling it quits. Arriving in an idyllic sanctuary nestled in the mountains, Laura and Bruno 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?

Date of release
2022-06-23
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Armağan Ballantyne

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New Zealand

Nude Tuesday is a 2022 comedy film written by Armağan Ballantyne and Jackie van Beek, and directed by Ballantyne. Set on a fictional island in the Pacific Ocean, the film follows Laura and Bruno as they attend a new-age retreat to save their marriage. The film's dialogue is entirely in a fictional language, with English subtitles. Three versions of the film exist: one with subtitles written by British comedian Julia Davis, one with a different set of subtitles written by Malaysian comedian Ronny Chieng and Australian comedian Celia Pacquola, and one without subtitles.

Production

The film's script was originally developed in English. During a phone call to Ballantyne, Jackie van Beek suggested that the film be in a gibberish, to tie in to the film's theme of miscommunication. The film was rehearsed in English based on van Beek's script, and performed in the fictional gibberish language of Zǿbftąņlik.

Zǿbftąņlik is a spontaneous language created by Wellington voice coach Perry Piercy. While not a constructed language, Piercy created phonic rules inspired by Nordic languages, as she felt that it was important that all actors in the film appeared to be speaking the same language.

After the film was shot and edited, subtitles were added by British comedian Julia Davis. Davis worked on the subtitles over a three-month period, having never read the original screenplay. Davis' subtitles greatly differed from Ballantyne and van Beek's original script. A different set of subtitles was created by Malaysian comedian Ronny Chieng and Australian comedian Celia Pacquola.

The film's soundtrack features cover versions of Phil Phillips' "Sea of Love", Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's "Islands in the Stream", The Zombies' "Time of the Season" and Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere", recorded in the fictional language of Zǿbftąņlik.

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