SummaryIt's Steve's birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch. (Film Movement)
Directed By:Rolf de Heer
Written By:Rolf de Heer
Alexandra's Project
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Incredible because for a 100 minute movie, Alexandra's Project passes like 30. Incredible also that most of those 100 minutes take place in a single living room. It's the tension and performances that pull you through, never letting your attention stray from what's going down on-screen.
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Actress Helen Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger.
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Oct 16, 2010
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Alexandra's Project works for me strictly as a source of entertainment. There is a 'plot' such as it is, and characters that are well-played by the main actors, as confirmed by the fact that the film's action was able
to hold my close attention throughout. But the plot has a major flaw, in failing to justify the actions of the wife. During the film there is the constant knawing question: Are the wife's actions in any way justified by the actions of the husband. For me, the answer is no. And if there are genuine reasons for her dissatisfaction, she made no apparent effort to discuss them with her husband. That being the case, I can
only conclude that there are mental issues that make the wife far less simpathetic than she might otherwise be. For me, the film is rare, in having a severely flawed plot, but still interesting enough to watch in its entirety.
Feb 6, 2024
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This film is certainly not a feminist film. It is the opposite. It is an anti-feminist film, which is a good thing.
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The punishment seems out of all proportion to the "crimes" committed, so that the film becomes no simplistic pro-feminist tract but is, on the contrary, more complex and disturbing.
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But de Heer's high-concept feminist tract loses some of its integrity over time, as it slowly devolves into a seedy, voyeuristic thriller that takes all too much pleasure in turning the screws.
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Macpherson keep things creepy and mystifying. But that damn videotape takes the edge off the mood both visually and dramatically.
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But the film suffers from a major and unforgivable flaw, one that grows more implausible and ridiculous over time.
Nov 30, 2012
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Alexandra's project is suspensful, visually engaging and skillfully illustrates a terrifying example of what happens in the ordinary experience of marriage when one party feels trapped, exploited and unable to express themself. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Production Company:
- Vertigo Productions
- Fandango Australia
- Palace Films
Release Date:Feb 18, 2005
Duration:1 h 43 m
Tagline:Not everyone loves surprises
Awards
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Australian Film Institute
• 5 Nominations
IF Awards
• 3 Nominations
