Starring: Martina Gedeck, Karlheinz Hackl, Ulrike Beimpold
Living in the remote Austrian wilderness, a woman (Gedeck)
is left alone at a house with a dog whilst the owners (Hackl, Beimpold) go on a
trip to the nearby village. By the next day, the two homeowners still haven’t
returned and whilst the woman goes out for a walk, she encounters an invisible
and impenetrable wall, sealing her off from any other human contact.
Given its rather odd story, The Wall is a very difficult
film to categorise. It’s distinctly surrealistic story pushes towards an ‘art
film’, the nature of the wall itself could almost push it towards science
fiction (this story wouldn’t have been out of place on the classic TV series,
The Twilight Zone) and the dark nature of the story also pushes towards horror
(in particular the sense of strange, isolated desperation that’s tonally
reminiscent of David Lynch’s debut, Eraserhead (1977)). There’s really not much
to the film beyond someone trying to survive in a wilderness and kept there by
an unknown force and as a result, it isn’t very long and despite the fact that
the film takes place over a wide rustic area, there’s little scope which does
cause the film’s novelty to wear a little thin towards the conclusion. However,
an acquired taste as it might be, The Wall is worth recommending if you like
your films a bit…weird.
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