The Wall

Germany

Intriguing, incredibly beautiful film. A middle-aged woman goes on vacation with several friends to a remote cabin in the Austrian mountains where, by a plot contrivance she ends up alone - trapped by an invisible barrier that appears in all access ways - preventing her escape.

Stunning use of landscape...she is imprisoned in beauty...surely part of the metaphor. Good use of voiceover, excellent editing choices throughout. Ditto the sound design/use of music. She gradually comes to see her fate as having been chosen by unseen others...and they've chosen isolation...perhaps for life.

My interest flagged a bit in the second hour but there was one startling sequence which snapped me back. Overall this was thoughtful, provocative, intelligent, well-executed...a parable for our time.

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