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Actress Adams in "The Woman in The Window": In the super cozy Panic Room
Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon / Netflix Inc.
There should be people who enthusiastically lie in coffins and mausoleums for rehearsals - for them this film with a heroine who is buried alive in an amazingly beautiful crypt is guaranteed to be a pleasure. Child psychologist Anna Fox apparently quit her job in "The Woman in the Window" and has finished with the world. She cannot go outside because of a panic disorder, her husband and child are somewhere far away and separated from her, and she likes to consume her antidepressants with red wine.
On the other hand, the place where this woman barricaded herself from the world looks like an interior design dream: Anna's burial chamber is a spacious town house in Manhattan, with wooden floors and fabric wallpapers, a comfortable sofa, vintage furniture, a cozy giant bed and a purring cat.
A hygge idyll, as photographed from magazines like "Elle Decoration" or "Country and Town House".
Lots of sighing, trembling and talking on the phone to the psychiatrist
The director Joe Wright, whose best-known film so far is probably »Atonement« from 2007, has filmed a bestselling crime novel by US author AJ Finn.
"The Woman in the Window" was planned as a cinema project with a star cast and has now started as a streaming premiere on Netflix.
Amy Adams plays the woman in distress.
A heroine who likes to watch black and white films like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Window to the Courtyard" - and, like the man played by James Stewart in Hitchcock's film, soon believes that looking out of the window has witnessed a crime.
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"The Woman in the Window" co-star Moore: Surprise visit from next door
Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon / Netflix Inc.
The viewers see the actress Adams trembling and sighing extensively, drinking red wine, handling drug doses, talking to her psychiatrist.
And they look at strangely jerky flashback images in which the heroine apparently remembers a terrible event.
There is a whole genre of lockdown thrillers out there that roll out the drama of being locked in.
Unlike in films like David Fincher's “Panic Room” from 2002 or Alexander Aja's “Oxygen” from 2020, however, “The Woman in the Window” is brave coming and going.
Anna has a roommate (Wyatt Russell) who has artistic ambitions and lives rather irregularly in the basement of her house.
In addition, the heroine opens her door for the pubescent son (Fred Hechinger) of the new neighbor family, and soon greets the boy's affable mother (Julianne Moore) and his grim father (Gary Oldman).
Basically, the psychiatrist (Tracy Letts) who is connected by telephone is also permanently present in the house of the heroine, who soon believes she will see a bloody act from her window, that of the police officers (Brian Tyree Henry and Jeanine Serralles) called for the hallucination of a mentally ill drinker is held.
Julianne Moore makes a nervous grimace
It's a pleasure to watch the great actress Julianne Moore twist her face into a nervous grimace and flop her long limbs. It's creepy to see star actor Gary Oldman in the role of a businessman who hides his teeth in his mouth so successfully that he looks like an old man. And it's awesome the many different ways that leading actress Adams can look terrified. Unfortunately, it's never really exciting.
The film "The Woman in the Window" aims to frighten its audience, but instead has what it takes to make them laugh more often - and most likely not voluntarily.
The highly acclaimed actress Adams ("Arrival") in particular acts here in many moments with such a wild expressive rage that when watching, the hallucination can sometimes arise that it is not Adams at all, but the somewhat similar German colleague Veronica Ferres, who is here Trying to use gestures and facial expressions for maximum fear and distress.
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Actors Gary Oldman, Brian Tyree Henry: Courageous comings and goings in the house of the heroine
Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon / Netflix Inc.
Allegedly, "The Woman in The Window" was originally supposed to be released in 2019.
On the net you can read that the thriller has been revised after badly rated test performances.
As a crime fiction and a stimulus for resolute shivering, the film may be a disappointment.
In return, he gives viewers the opportunity to spend a film evening with the heroine Anna Fox in a very cozy atmosphere.
And maybe to think about embellishing your own living space.
In the credits, the names of the art directors and the decorator, who are probably responsible for the splendor shown here, appear very soon after the director's name.
Their names are Deborah Jensen, Nithya Shrinivasan and Rena Deangelo.
I would be delighted by them at any time to spruce up my little home.
