Alexandre Aja has been infatuated by the genre of one-location cinema. The director’s latest film, “Oxygen,“ marks his deepest descent into this tingling fascination.
In the likes of “Buried” with Ryan Reynolds or “Locke” with Tom Hardy, the entire film takes place in one medical cryo unit no longer than a coffin. Our protagonist, Liz (Mélanie Laurent), wakes up in this confined space with a limited supply of oxygen and must quickly restore her memory before time runs out.
Aja directed his first film “Over the Rainbow” in 1997, which featured an apartment building caretaker with cannibalistic tendencies feasting on his residents. The filmmaker said he further developed this theme in “The Hills Have Eyes” — a remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 cult classic that follows a family fighting off a group of cannibalistic mutants after their car breaks down in the desert.
“At first, I wasn’t looking into what...
In the likes of “Buried” with Ryan Reynolds or “Locke” with Tom Hardy, the entire film takes place in one medical cryo unit no longer than a coffin. Our protagonist, Liz (Mélanie Laurent), wakes up in this confined space with a limited supply of oxygen and must quickly restore her memory before time runs out.
Aja directed his first film “Over the Rainbow” in 1997, which featured an apartment building caretaker with cannibalistic tendencies feasting on his residents. The filmmaker said he further developed this theme in “The Hills Have Eyes” — a remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 cult classic that follows a family fighting off a group of cannibalistic mutants after their car breaks down in the desert.
“At first, I wasn’t looking into what...
- 5/13/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
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