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09/26/05 03:15 AM
Alexandra's Project (2005)
53 %
Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 9 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Synopsis:
Steve (Gary Sweet) is a middle-management office worker happily going through the motions of family life as husband to wife Alexandra (Helen Buday) and father to their two children. On his birthday, he receives a much sought after promotion. With good news to share at home, Steve leaves work... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca
Director: Rolf De Heer
Screenwriter: Rolf De Heer
Producer: Julie Ryan, Domenico Procacci
Composer: Graham Tardif
Screenwriter: Rolf De Heer
Producer: Julie Ryan, Domenico Procacci
Composer: Graham Tardif
Reviews
1 - 18 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
nihilistic film covers familiar territory in a fresh new way that is extremely memorable
02/25/05 10:16 PM
It's a contrived -- though carefully crafted -- bit of movie gamesmanship that sometimes seems like a claustrophobic stunt.
01/28/05 04:47 PM
De Heer offers a wicked twist on household secrets and lies.
01/28/05 04:45 PM
It’s the tension and performances that pull you through, never letting your attention stray from what’s going down on-screen.
01/15/05 10:24 PM
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.
01/14/05 01:46 PM
confidently shot and scripted in clipped, emotionally direct dialogue that’s thankfully not resorting to Harold Pinter, David Mamet, or Neil LaBute
01/06/05 04:55 PM
I Spit on Your Grave gets to the nitty gritty. The equally problematic Alexandra’s Project is simply glib.
11/10/04 12:40 PM
Even though the performances are terrific and the claustrophobic atmospherics effective, the film elicits more anger than praise.
06/07/04 11:49 AM
It's really the feel-bad movie of the week. In a genius sort of way.
05/29/04 08:22 AM
It's a movie that will leave few men unrattled and many women vicariously satisfied.
05/28/04 03:10 PM
Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger.
05/28/04 03:08 PM
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.
10/01/03 05:05 PM
An edgy little Aussie thriller that will have husbands shaking in their shoes, Alexandra's Project is a film like no other.
05/09/03 12:36 AM
One of the year's true surprise packages..will have you gasping for breath right up until the very last cinematic shock
05/02/03 08:04 AM
That damn videotape takes the edge off the mood both visually and dramatically.
04/22/03 05:08 PM
Top Critic 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.
04/22/03 02:28 PM
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