Take Care: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse

I could tell by the title sequence alone—the camera gliding along a body, following the path of a telephone cord—that Night Nurse (2026) would not be like the other movies I had been seeing at Sundance. While the festival in aggregate leans toward safe picks, Night Nurse, which premiered in the NEXT competition, is anything but. The film follows a new nurse, Eleni (Cemre Paksoy), as she gets acquainted with a patient being evaluated for early onset Alzheimer’s, Douglas (Bruce McKenzie), during overnight shifts in the memory-care unit. Eleni quickly slips under Douglas’s spell and becomes his accomplice in a phone scam on […] Source