Rotten
It's a contrived -- though carefully crafted -- bit of movie gamesmanship that sometimes seems like a claustrophobic stunt.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Alexandra's Project
Not everyone loves surprises
2003 · 1h 43m · UNRATED
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Rolf de Heer
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Alexandra's Project
Overview
Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all easy access outside cut off and a videotape waiting for him. Playing that tape, he watches a bizarre and grueling recording in which his wife explains her grievance with him, her reasons for disappearing with the children and her revenge for how he treated her in a way he would never forget.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Fresh
De Heer offers a wicked twist on household secrets and lies.
Michael Booth, Denver Post
Rotten
De Heer, who also wrote the script, would have us believe that a wife who's tired of her oblivious bloke of a husband could suddenly become conniving and cruel, coolly defending her actions with twisted logic that's sold as feminism.
John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
It's a movie that will leave few men unrattled and many women vicariously satisfied.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Fresh
Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger.
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
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