5/5
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Nimic is a deliciously sinister and utterly captivating short about the fungibility of identity and how easy it is to lose yourself when you let yourself be defined by others people without truly connecting. As with so many of Lanthimos’s films, the affected dialogue, the distance between characters, the odd behaviors – they all work together to create this dark and poetic representation of the disconnections we all find in our day-to-day lives. The precise framing and discordant score adds to the discomfort and unease we feel throughout the film. And the casting of the doppelgänger is a stroke of genius here – especially in what it has to say about just how disconnection affects our ability to truly know each other. And what’s even more impressive is that Lanthimos does this all in just 12 minutes. This is a really fantastic work of short narrative cinema.
