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.
Alexandra's Project (2005)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:9
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5.4/10
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... 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 and heads home, in anticipation of a surprise party he suspects Alexandra has organized. But when he returns home, all is quite in their suburban townhouse. After searching the darkened house for party guests Steve finds nothing except a video tape labeled “Play Me.” It is a recording made by Alexandra and their children wishing him a happy birthday. Once the children leave the screen, Alexandra begins to give Steve the most surprising present of all…an alluring striptease. He thinks all his birthdays have come at once…until, on the video, he sees a gun pointed at Alexandra's head. In a panic, he races for the phone but discovers there's no connection. He tries to leave the townhouse only to find that his keys no longer fit the locks and the security shutters on the windows are locked tight. Remembering his mobile phone, Steve finds that his battery has been replaces by a bullet. Alone, frightened and imprisoned in his own house, Steve has no choice but to watch the rest of the video tape. -- © Film Movement [More]
Starring: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca
Starring: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca
Director: Rolf De Heer
Director: Rolf De Heer
Screenwriter: Rolf De Heer
Producer: Julie Ryan, Domenico Procacci
Composer: Graham Tardif
Reviews for Alexandra's Project
Even though the performances are terrific and the claustrophobic atmospherics effective, the film elicits more anger than praise.
It’s the tension and performances that pull you through, never letting your attention stray from what’s going down on-screen.
Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger.
It's a contrived -- though carefully crafted -- bit of movie gamesmanship that sometimes seems like a claustrophobic stunt.
I Spit on Your Grave gets to the nitty gritty. The equally problematic Alexandra’s Project is simply glib.
An edgy little Aussie thriller that will have husbands shaking in their shoes, Alexandra's Project is a film like no other.
That damn videotape takes the edge off the mood both visually and dramatically.
confidently shot and scripted in clipped, emotionally direct dialogue that’s thankfully not resorting to Harold Pinter, David Mamet, or Neil LaBute
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.
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.
One of the year's true surprise packages..will have you gasping for breath right up until the very last cinematic shock
nihilistic film covers familiar territory in a fresh new way that is extremely memorable
It's a movie that will leave few men unrattled and many women vicariously satisfied.
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