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All Chloe (Joi Itapson) wants is to pick up her best friend Ness
(Douglas Reese) to go to a party. But Ness is seriously not in the mood,
not only has he boy trouble, but he has also been turned down by yet
another doctor - because you know, Ness wants nothing more than to have a
sex change, but it's anything but easy to find a doctor to perform it, and
Ness is more and more likely to abandon all hope. Seeing that Ness is not
at all in a partying mood, Chloe gives up all her plans for his sake,
however grudgingly ... but raids his kitchen for booze at least. And then
all of a sudden, pretty much in the middle of the conversation, Ness is
gone. Chloe can't find him anywhere in his apartment, nor some of the
other places he regularly visits, and she starts to slightly panic - but
nothing at all could have prepared her for what has actually happened ... Filmed
in director Douglas Reese's usual unexcited and deliberately slow paced
style, Nessa is not a film that goes into the thick of things but
takes its time to set up its story and characters, mainly via
conversations in long and static (yet interestingly composed) shots,
conversations that at first seem to touch upon the main topics of the
movie rather randomly and only gradually come together as a whole - before
disaster strikes, and with it, the camera seems to find its dynamic rather
fittingly. But that's not to say the extended set-up is dull in any way,
as the two actors have a really good chemistry and their conversation and
banter is well enough written or improvised to keep one interested
nevertheless - and one feels for the characters long before everything
falls apart. Oh, and the final shot certainly packs a punch. Well worth
a look!
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