PREVIEW: Nanny (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Anna Diop (Us), Michelle Monaghan (Gone Baby Gone), Sinqua Walls (Believe Me), Morgan Spector (The Drop), Rose Decker (film debut), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Zephani Idoko (Bad Henry), Princess Adenike (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Nikyatu Jusu (film debut), director, writer; Nikkia Moulterie (B-Side) and Daniela Taplin Lundberg (Beasts of No Nation), producers; Bartek Gliniak (Case Unknown) and Tanerélle (film debut), composers; Rina Yang (Becoming), cinematographer; Robert Mead (Looking for Sunday), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Aisha (Diop), a Senegalese migrant, is hired as a nanny for the child of affluent New York couple Amy (Monaghan) and Adam (Spector). As Aisha plans to bring her own child, who she had to leave behind back in Senegal, to the United States to live with her, she begins to experience a series of disturbing events that blend into both her dreams and her reality…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

After making waves at festivals around the world, including at Sundance where it won the Grand Jury Prize (an honour previously bestowed upon eventual Best Picture winner CODA), this unsettling psychological horror arrives to chill audiences with its disturbing visuals and its thought-provoking themes.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

 

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