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Alexandra's Project (2005)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca
Screenwriter: Rolf De Heer
Producer: Julie Ryan, Domenico Procacci
Composer: Graham Tardif
DVD Info
Release:
May 4, 2005
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- [unspecified] - English
Additional Release Material:
- Bonus Feature - 1. Highlights from the Film Movement Series
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Biographies
Reviews
nihilistic film covers familiar territory in a fresh new way that is extremely memorable
It's a contrived -- though carefully crafted -- bit of movie gamesmanship that sometimes seems like a claustrophobic stunt.
De Heer offers a wicked twist on household secrets and lies.
It’s the tension and performances that pull you through, never letting your attention stray from what’s going down on-screen.
De Heer, who also wrote the script, would have us believe that a wife who's tired of her oblivious bloke of a husband could suddenly become conniving and cruel, coolly defending her actions with twisted logic that's sold as feminism.
confidently shot and scripted in clipped, emotionally direct dialogue that’s thankfully not resorting to Harold Pinter, David Mamet, or Neil LaBute
I Spit on Your Grave gets to the nitty gritty. The equally problematic Alexandra’s Project is simply glib.
Even though the performances are terrific and the claustrophobic atmospherics effective, the film elicits more anger than praise.
It's really the feel-bad movie of the week. In a genius sort of way.
It's a movie that will leave few men unrattled and many women vicariously satisfied.
Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger.
This low-budget Australian film is pitched as a psycho-sexual thriller but it's not thrilling at all: it's just cold, hateful and cheap.
An edgy little Aussie thriller that will have husbands shaking in their shoes, Alexandra's Project is a film like no other.
One of the year's true surprise packages..will have you gasping for breath right up until the very last cinematic shock
That damn videotape takes the edge off the mood both visually and dramatically.
A tense and dramatic psycho-thriller that mostly takes place in a single day, Alexandra's Project is a dense and confronting film that savagely explores the notions of sex within a marriage.


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