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Alexandra's Project

3.6 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
IMDb6.5/10.0

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It's Steve's (Gary Sweet) birthday and he's just been promoted at the office. In a good mood, he goes home to his family expecting to celebrate. Instead, he finds an empty suburban home and videotape labeled 'Play Me.' The tape begins with his loving wife (Helen Buday) providing birthday wishes and quickly segues, to his pleasant surprise, into a striptease. But surprise turns into shock when he sees a gun pointed at her head. As the tape plays, his seemingly ordinary life unravels into a nightmare of mind games and revenge. Along with two brilliant lead performances, acclaimed auteur Rolf de Heer brings to us his visionary new twist on the psychological thriller.

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WINNER - Golden Zenith Award - Montreal World Film Festival
WINNER - Best Original Screenplay - Australian Film Critics Circle
WINNER - Best Actress - Valladolid Int'l Film Festival
WINNER - Bets Screenplay - Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
NOMINATED - Golden Bear - Berlin Int'l Film Festival
NOMINATED - Best Film - Australian Film Institute (Australian Oscars®)
NOMINATED - Best Actress - Australian Film Institute (Australian Oscars®)
WINNER - Best Film - Australian Film Critics Circle
WINNER - Best Director - Australian Film Critics Circle
Official Selection - Toronto Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection - Milwaukee Int'l Film Festival
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CRITIC'S PICK Ingenious! ----New York Magazine

Genius! Impressive...remarkable...[and] quite unlike anything else out there. -- --The Toronto Sun

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Rolf de Heer
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 43 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2005
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca, Gary Sweet
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Film Movement
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0007LI10S
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    3.6 out of 5 stars 134 ratings

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2018
    We do not get to engage with the lead male role to the point of "knowing" his personality beyond some typical stereotyping characteristics in the business world. The female lead role leaves us to wonder why she did not "step up" in the first year or two of the marriage and tell her husband what she did and did not like. Having lived with a very conservative person for 40 years, I have some experience with people that do not communicate well or at all on personal issues. You can go that long and still not really know them or what they are thinking most of the time. Life is all about COMMUNICATION! Not DOMINATION of one over another. If you hit me with a baseball bat, shame on you, if you do it again, shame on me! The female lead role certainly got "even" with the lead male role, her husband. Hate on hate only gets more hate! I know there are men that fit this role. I have known a few in my time and most of the time, in the end, they are the losers. Simply put, anyone that lets such abuse go on is in question. No one ever deserves such abuse. IN the same token, it seems that both characters were at odds with each other. I did not see any sense of connection outside the children. I felt hard pressed to really feel sympathy for either party. I was emotional. But, in the end, I felt both had failed at the principle of COMMUNICATION and permitted the activities to go on unabated. A cheating husband, and a wife that would not address the problems at an earlier point in time. Shame on both of them!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2018
    This is a powerful, quirky little film with a sinister touch that kept me riveted. Australia has a tradition of producing unpredictable, off-center cinema, and this one did not disappoint. Gary Sweet and Helen Buday were outstanding. No spoilers other than to say that this film is about a wife's ingenious revenge against her husband. Highly recommended if you are looking for something different to watch, but not for those looking for big action films, plenty of gore, or hot, beautiful bodies. This film is suspenseful,so for those who don't like 'slow' films don't watch it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2017
    Oh my, where to begin with this. (SOME SPOILERS) I suppose the main problem with this film is, at no point did I really care about the characters. Alexandra is, well...from the very start, she comes off as a bit of a pill. She never becomes likable or sympathetic. Whiny, irrational, yes perhaps crazy. She's "unhappy," and tells us so but it's never really convincing nor do her vague reasons justify her actions. Not even close. The husband (forgot his name already - "Steve," maybe?) - yeah, he does some nice guy/good dad things but they're very general, everyday things a regular guy would do, working as White Collar Businessman for Vague Corporation. And there's no indication that he's in any way the person Alexandra describes. There should be some clue, some crumbs, to foreshadow her actions and perhaps get us on board.
    Visually, there's not much going on. Many of the scenes are just excruciatingly plodding with "business" that seems to take forever. Steve (screw it, I'm calling him Steve whether it's right or not) turns on a light switch; insert of light not turning on; Steve tries again; insert to light, still nothing; close-up Steve's reaction to this...and so on and so on for every thing. I found myself screaming at the screen "WILL YOU JUST GET ON WITH IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!" And of course most of the film as a long whiny monologue from Alexandra (we're watching her on a VCR tape) intercut with Steve's facial expressions. It's brutal.
    The only characters I cared about were the kids, who were essentially just props but after all this I was concerned for their future. Poor Steve, yeah, but again he's underdeveloped so I don't really care, and never gave a fig about Alexandra.
    Lastly, you're waiting for the big Plot Twist, the piece of irony that turns the story on its head, taking it in a new direction. i'm still waiting.
    This is typical regional film festival material. You walk out afterwards, people ask you how it was, you say "meh, it was okay, I guess." And the only reason you're so generous is because you're comparing it to the unfocused mishmash from the two-bit David Lynch wannabe you saw that afternoon. But like most of the other films you see at the festival, the story just isn't there - just a general idea of one.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2011
    I purchased this version because it indicated that it was the original 103 minute version and not the 99 minute version shown on cable and released in Canada/US back in the 2005 range. This one was identical and the info is wrong. I also purchased the PAL version and it too is the edited version and not the original shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003 when the movie was first released.

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  • Christian
    5.0 out of 5 stars la qualité du produit
    Reviewed in France on September 7, 2019
    vision
  • T. D.
    5.0 out of 5 stars DVD Alexandras Projekt
    Reviewed in Germany on October 12, 2012
    Der Film ist eine besonders tiefdringende und medienreflektive Inszenierung über die Perspektive einer unglücklichen, abgedrehten und einfallsreichen Ehefrau. Über eine Video-Cam verschafft sie sich endlich die Stimme, die ihr die Beziehung ihres selbstgerechten Gatten über Jahre verwehrt hat.
    Obwohl zu Anfang nicht viel passiert und die Synchronisation (besonders der Bälger) zu wünschen übrig lässt, verstehen Kameraarbeit und die darstellerische Leistung der weiblichen Hauptrolle es wirklich, die Aufmerksamkeit der Zuschauenden aufrecht zu erhalten. Der weitere Filmverlauf hält durch eine originelle Handlung und geglückte Inszenierung bis zum Ende, was der faszinierende Anfang verspricht. Dieser Film gefällt nicht nur Movie Geeks, die tief in der Nacht nach neuen Grenzüberschreitungen filmischer Darstellungen suchen, sondern auch aufgrund seiner wohlüberlegten und reflektierten Gestaltung filmerfahrenen Cineasten.

    Die DVD wurde schnell geliefert und ist - abgesehen von wenigen Tipp-Fehlern im Booklet - von guter Qualität. Der Edition liegt ein vernünftiges, mediengerechtes Konzept zugrunde, sodass sowohl der Film angemessen präsentiert als auch vermittelt werden kann. Die DVD-Produktionsfirma konzentriert sich auf spannende Filmprojekte, die sich in ihren extremen Stilmitteln mutig von Mainstream-Produktionen abwenden und dennoch nicht den narrativen oder künstlerischen Ansprüchen schaden. Lediglich das Layout wirkt etwas ausschlachtend. Demnach könnte der eine oder andere Gewaltbegeisterte, der den Versprechungen auf der DVD-Hülle Glauben schenkt, vom tatsächlichen Plot überrascht sein. Dieser ist nicht derart brutal, geht jedoch auf subtile Weise und psychologisch sehr dezent und dennoch erschütternd in die Tiefe unbeschrittener Pfade der filmischen Gewalt.
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  • Harry 1508
    4.0 out of 5 stars Filme
    Reviewed in Germany on November 9, 2020
    alles io, !
  • ATZE
    5.0 out of 5 stars BIN ICH FROH DAS ICH EINE TREUE SEELE BIN ...
    Reviewed in Germany on December 6, 2012
    Alexandra,Alexandra.
    Man bekommt nicht wirklich die Einsicht um was für einen Menschen es sich handelt,als man Alexandra zuerst sieht.Darum ist die Verwandlung in eine Rachsüchtige Frau umso aufregender.Für mich ist dies der beste Film der Störkanal-Reihe.
    Zwar sind alle ohne Ausnahme der Hauptdarstellerin nicht so Überzeugend,auch wegen der Sychronisation doch dieser Frau auf Ihrem Racheweg,der allein auf einer Videokamera stattfindet zusehen zu können ist 5 Sterne wert.
    Fesselnder Film!
  • Harry Schmidt
    4.0 out of 5 stars Störkanal - wer sonst!
    Reviewed in Germany on June 30, 2011
    Wieder ein toller Film der Störkanalreihe. Tolle Athmosphäre im Haus: Von Nachdenklich bis exessiv spannend alles dabei. Man denkt nur: - dranbleiben - nix verpassen! Sehr fesselnde Szenerie, gegen Ende etwas nachlassend. Aber eines ist sicher: Die Diskussion nach dem Film. Lohnt sich in jedem Fall.