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New York Times
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A ‘Nurse Action Movie' Might Be Different, but That's the Point
The German actress Leonie Benesch appears in every scene of Petra Volpe's 'Late Shift,' a tense drama about a night nurse in an understaffed hospital. The film, which screens at the inaugural edition of South by Southwest London on Tuesday in its British debut, follows Benesch's character, Floria, over the course of a single night. She rushes from bedside to bedside, bringing patients painkillers or peppermint tea and calms their nerves by trying to get hold of a doctor — or just by singing to them. To prepare for the role, Benesch said she shadowed nurses in a hospital for a week, learning to handle medical equipment and internalizing the rhythm of care work. 'I wanted to understand the choreography and how do they move. How do they interact with patients? What's the code-switching between talking to one another and talking to patients?' Benesch, 34, said in an interview. 'The challenge for me,' she added, 'was that a health care professional watch this and go: She could be one of us.' The actress spoke in May from a hotel bar in Cardiff, Wales, in crisp British-accented English. She was in Wales filming the political thriller 'Prisoner,' the sort of large-budget international television production that dots her résumé along with smaller art house films. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Japan Times
20-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Japan Times
‘Hypnosismic — Division Rap Battle — Movie' lets viewers remix the narrative
Democracy may be in decline around the world, but it's on the rise in Japanese movie theaters. 'Hypnosismic — Division Rap Battle — Movie,' which goes into wide release Feb. 21, is billed as Japan's first interactive movie, in which the audience votes en masse to determine the outcome of the story. The interactive feature is the latest event in the 'Hypnosismic' media mix franchise, which kicked off in 2017 with music, manga, a smartphone game, anime series and live concerts. 'Hipumai,' as fans call it, centers on groups of stylish male rappers from neighborhoods around Tokyo and Japan at large who engage in rap battles using special hypnotic microphones. The fanbase (about 90% of which is young women, a rep tells me) attends live events wearing LED-lined gloves lit up in colors representing their favorite group, including Buster Bros!!! (Ikebukuro), Fling Posse (Shibuya) and Bad Ass Temple (Nagoya). Such was the case at the premiere of the 'Hypnosismic' film on Feb. 5, attended by members of the press and about 300 fans chosen via lottery. Before the screening, longtime 'Hipumai' fans and journalists alike were instructed to download a smartphone app developed by Kino Industries, the company behind the tech that powers interactive films like this one (their first film, the English-language interactive thriller 'Late Shift,' was released in 2016). After an introduction by the film's cast and director Takanori Tsujimoto, all of whom did an admirable job of talking for 40 minutes about a film they weren't allowed to reveal anything about, the LED-adorned audience was asked to scan an onscreen QR code with their apps, allowing voting on each of the film's rap battles.
