Nuren is quiet, a bit messy, and strangely stuck in its own head

Is it worth your time?

If you like movies that feel like you are just hanging out in the corner of a dorm room listening to people talk, then yeah, maybe. If you need a plot that actually moves from A to B with some momentum, you are going to be bored out of your mind within twenty minutes. It is definitely for the crowd that prefers mood over message.

Nuren is one of those films that just exists in its own bubble. It follows three girls—well, students—after they join a society, but the society part feels almost like a backdrop. It is really about the space between them.

The little things

There is this one scene where they are just sitting on the floor. It goes on for a long time. You can hear the hum of the light fixture. It felt so real that I almost forgot I was watching a movie and started looking for my own phone.

The pacing is honestly all over the place. Sometimes it feels like it is sprinting through a conversation, and other times it just stops. It is like the editor took a nap in the middle of a cut. But maybe that is the point? Life doesn't always have a rhythm.

• The lighting in the hallway scenes is weirdly yellow.
• I still don't know what the society actually does.
• The tea-pouring scene takes forever.

I found myself thinking about The Crowd for some reason while watching. Not because they are similar—they aren't—but because there is that same sense of being lost in a group. Except here, the group is tiny and the stakes are just... friendship?

The acting is fine, I guess. It is very understated. Sometimes so understated that it feels like they are reading their lines from a post-it note stuck to the camera lens. But then there are these flashes of something raw. A look, a sigh, a twitch of the shoulder. It makes you feel like you are intruding on something you weren't invited to.

It is not a perfect movie. It is not even a polished one. It feels like a rough draft that someone decided to just leave alone. And you know what? That is kind of refreshing. It doesn't scream at you to feel things. It just sits there, waiting for you to notice the tiny shifts in the room. ☕

I probably wouldn't watch it twice. But I also don't regret watching it once, even if the ending just sort of happens without any real closure. Sometimes a movie just ends, you know?