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  • 2005
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2005
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 43 m
Alexandra's Project

Summary It'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

  • 2005
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2005
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 43 m

Alexandra's Project

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary It'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

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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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.
By Eric Campos FULL REVIEW
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Actress Helen Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger.
By Stephen Cole FULL REVIEW

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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.
By David Stratton FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
60
Macpherson keep things creepy and mystifying. But that damn videotape takes the edge off the mood both visually and dramatically.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW
25
But the film suffers from a major and unforgivable flaw, one that grows more implausible and ridiculous over time.
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Production Company Vertigo Productions, Fandango Australia, Palace Films
Release Date Feb 18, 2005
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline Not everyone loves surprises
Website http://www.vertigoproductions.com.au/alexandras_project_overview.php
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Awards

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Australian Film Institute
• 5 Nominations
IF Awards
• 3 Nominations

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