Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Alexandre Aja’s Netflix Thriller ‘Oxygen’
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deadline.comIf you’ve felt physically trapped over the past 14 months, you’ll feel right at home in Oxygen (Oxygène), a locked-in-a-box conceptual thriller that more or less succeeds almost entirely due to Mélanie Laurent’s resourceful performance as a woman who has no idea why she’s become trapped in a tiny cryogenic pod.
Any number of suspense dramas have benefitted from extreme confinement — Alien, Buried, Locke, Gravity, The Descent and Room just for starters.
But screenwriters Alexandre Aja, a director who has obliterated boundaries of civility with the likes of High Tension and the 2006 NC-17-rated remake of The Hills Have Eyes, and Christie LeBlanc have now perhaps set a new standard for tight confinement.
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