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AKA The Balconettes.
Noemie Merlant wrote, directed and starred in this film that IMDb classified as “fantasy, horror, comedy.” Wikipedia has a complete summary of the macabre plot.
Two contenders for the best nude scene of the year:
Merlant
Yacoub
The following is Scoop’s Christmas Carol, the same one I have told every Christmas for decades. The message is Christian, but the lesson is universal:
Peace on earth; good will to men.
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Human societies seem to have some common rules, one of which is that the young men must kill or be killed for whatever causes the old men have brainwashed them to believe, but there were a few times in our history when the warriors told their overlords to stuff it, if only for a moment. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1914, during the first sacred holiday of the first world war, the trench warriors set aside their rifles, ignored their orders, and walked into the no-man’s land to celebrate Christmas with their enemies.
Peace broke out in many places along the lines, involving many men communicating to one another without a common language. As the story goes, the Germans first put Christmas trees up just above their sight lines, with signs that said “you no shoot, we no shoot” or “Merry Christmas.” Then the Scots brought out their ubiquitous bagpipes and played Christmas carols. The French broke out their champagne. The men shared pictures of their loved ones. They roasted some pigs together for Christmas dinner, and their chaplains held Christmas religious ceremonies. They cleared no-man’s land of the rotten corpses, buried their fallen comrades, and helped their enemies to do the same. When they had cleared away their dead, they played soccer where the bodies had been strewn.
The real-life aftermath of the unpremeditated Christmas truce was shock among the high commands of the opposing nations. Nothing could be more disastrous for the world’s sense of proper order than to have young men of opposing countries declaring their comradeship and refusing to kill one another. Why, it’s downright socialist! Generals on both sides declared this peacemaking to be treasonous, and all the lingering goodwill generated by the spontaneous outbreak of peace had been completely quashed by Easter of 1915, when the men would again resume the unquestioned killing of one another on behalf of their common God, who had apparently issued the two sides contradictory orders. Before Armistice Day in 1918, an entire European generation was lost. Some thirty million young men would return to their homes wounded. Their mothers would be envied by the ten million others whose sons did not return at all.
As I write this on this Christmas Day in 2025, when many young men are still dying for old men’s causes, it gives me some faint hope to look back on that Christmas of 1914 and recall the foot soldiers who proved that, despite all indications to the contrary, we do have brotherhood within us, if only we reach for it.
It’s time to start assembling the nominees for the nude scene of the year. Here’s an incomplete list. Add your suggestions.
Remember, the goal is NOT to list every nude scene, just the potential winners. In other words, don’t add a nominee unless it is the scene you want to vote for over all the previous nominees.
Noemie Merlant in The Balconettes
Souheila Yacoub in The Balconettes
Sydney Sweeney in The Housemaid
Gabriela Andrada in Ask Me What You Want
Margherita Aresti in Parthenope
Ellen Greene in Beatrix is Invisible
Aimée-Lou Wood in The White Lotus (s3e2)
Franciska Töröcsik in Rise of the Raven (several episodes)
Zoë Kravitz in Caught Stealing
Hannah Einbinder in Hacks (s4e5, s4e2)
Paulina Gaitan in The Dead Girls (e1)
Jennifer Lawrence in Die, My Love
Imogen Poots in The Chronology of Water
Olivia Winter in Robin Hood (e3)
Cynthia Nixon in And Just Like That (s3e5)
Marjorie Estiano in Ângela Diniz
Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee
Ivana Baquero in A Widow’s Game
Ivana Baquero in episode 3 of The House of Ashur
Rachel Sennott in I Love LA (e1, e6)
Hermione Corfield in Outlander: Blood of My Blood (e2 and e3)
Lauren McQueen in Outlander: Blood of My Blood (e4)
Harriet Slater in Outlander: Blood of My Blood (e10)
India Shaw-Smith in The House of Ashur (e2)
Svenja Jung in Naked (multiple episodes)
Malin Akerman in The Hunting Wives
Brittany Snow in The Hunting Wives
Aisha Dee in Watching You (many episodes)
Llewellyn Reichman in Immerhin: Die Kunst, die Kunst
Tecla Insolia in The Art of Joy (e4)
Mariann Hermanyi in Rise of the Raven (e6)
Juana Acosta in Medusa (various episodes)
Virginia Gardner in 1923 (s2e7)
Valérie Tellos in Fleur de Peau (e5)
Daphne Patakia in Our Wildest Days
Cassandra Ciangherotti in Las Locuras
Ana Lecic naked in Crna Svadba (s2e9)
Anna Zavtur in High Season (multiple episodes)
Verena Altenberger in No Beast. So Fierce.
Anamaria Vartolomei in episode 6 of The Seduction
Ginevra Francesconi in “Una Figlia”:
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Margaret Qualley in Honey Don’t
Olivia Cooke in The Girlfriend
E. Khandmaa in The Pursuit of Lust
Carrie Coon in The White Lotus (s3e7)
Daisy Edgar Jones and Sasha Calle in On Swift Horses
Lea Myren in The Ugly Stepsister
Marimar Vega in Snakes and Ladders (various episodes)
Carol Nakamura in Arcanjo Renegado
Carolina Ramirez Quintero In The Mud
Pola Gonciarz in Druga Furioza
Radhika Apte naked in Sister Midnight
UPDATE: For the record, Mr Skin made his selections:
10. The orgy scene in Peacemaker (season two premiere)
9. Diane Kruger in The Shrouds
8. Nicole Kidman in Babygirl
7. Zoë Kravitz in Caught Stealing
6. Imogen Poots in All of You
5. Aimee-Lou Wood in The White Lotus (s3e2)
4. Rachel Sennott in the first episode of I Love LA
3. Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza in Honey Don’t!
2. Redacted
1. Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow in The Hunting Wives (s1e8)
NOTE: Nicole Kidman made our list last year. I use a calendar year, he uses sort of a December to November fiscal year, so December releases will appear in different years.
NOT ELIGIBLE BUT GREAT:
Not new, but first seen in top quality: Hazel Court in The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
Not from a film or show: Bianca Censori at the 2025 Grammys
Example from the list:
The 2013 death of Cecil Hotel patron Elisa Lam was ruled accidental by the Los Angeles County Coroner, but people continue to dispute that report because of the strange hotel security footage — not to mention the Cecil’s reputation.
The 21-year-old Canadian was found in the hotel’s water tower after guests complained about the taste of the water. Theories about the case range from murder to the paranormal.
It aired in Canada, and is now on the internet.
Promoted from the comments area:
A tip from the theater for a change: Hungarian actress Kata Weber in the play Dementia
According to the interwebs, Kata is also the author:
A Hungarian screenwriter, playwright, and actress, often collaborating with her husband, director Kornél Mundruczó, Kata Wéber, known for films like White God and Pieces of a Woman, wrote a stage play titled Dementia, exploring the human condition, memory, and loss.
