Here is a stylised and self-aware serial killer drama in black-and-white, damaged down into 9 “nights”. A younger lady known as Nada (Nour Hajri) picks up males in bars, taking part in on their protecting gallantry or predatory intuition for weak spot, by pretending to be vocally impaired and needing a voice app on her telephone to talk. She goes residence with them after a number of drinks and horror ensues. However Nada finds herself susceptible in falling for a younger lady at her office, Noura (Rym Hayouni), who herself begins to grasp what is going on in Nada’s after-hours existence.
Black Medusa comes from first-time Tunisian film-makers Youssef Chebbi and Ismaël, who might conceivably be followers of Ana Lily Amirpour’s cult monochrome vampire movie A Lady Walks Residence Alone at Evening. There's a scene when Nada is strolling one in all her victims again to his condominium and a few cats wander into view that jogged my memory of Amirpour’s very cat-friendly film. And Nada’s deadpan and implacable avenger would possibly put you in thoughts of Carey Mulligan’s assailant in Promising Younger Girl.
The noir temper of menace and emotional deadness in Black Medusa has been very rigorously contrived and curated. Maybe the final word irony is that it's Nada who has been turned to stone. I wasn’t certain fairly how far the procedural side of serial-killing takes us on this movie, nevertheless – both as commentary on the macho tradition of north Africa (or wherever) or as a drama by itself phrases. The method is cool, clean, as if the movie doesn't wish to threat investing an excessive amount of in what is going on. And I wasn’t certain how a lot was ready for us on the finish of the backyard path alongside which we're being led.
There are some very sharp moments, notably one sufferer who begins sharing about how romance died between him and his long-term companion once they determined to get married: “We stopped being in love on our wedding ceremony day.”
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