Movie

Nanny

2022 · 98 min

A slow, water-soaked dread creeps through intimate domestic spaces, blending quiet tenderness with mounting unease and sorrow.

Tagline: We're haunted by what we leave behind.
Overview: Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, melancholic and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Immigration, isolation, grief, parenthood
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: immigration
isolation
grief
parenthood
identity
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild