Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca
Rolf de Heer's psychological thriller Alexandra's Project captures a turning point in a very unhappy marriage. Steve (Gary Sweet) and Alexandra (Helen Buday) have two children and numerous grievances ... read more 
DVD Release Date: January 1, 2005
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June 22, 2011Good slow-paced, but taut adult psychological thriller. This is a classic case of the man is the evil perpetrator, while the woman is the victim. Anyone with a bit of common sense knows this is false in reality, and both sides of the story must be examined. This film only present... read more
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December 29, 2010WTF!!! I read the plot-line and was expecting some great mystery. I'd no idea that this will turn out to be so awful. Maybe the worst I've seen this year. It's too slow paced, but that's not where I'd problem. The problem lied in over-exposure. Too much nudity, IMHO. I felt like ... read more
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January 23, 2010One of those movies where I can't decide whether I liked it or not. Very dark, intense, and graphic. It was definitely unpredictable, that's for sure.
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March 24, 2009fb1144932598Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Alexandra (Helen Buday) plans and executes a most intricate birthday present for her husband, Steve (Gary Sweet), that starts off happy enough, but leaves him stunned, angry, and broken. A rollercoaster ride of emotions play out here and th... read more
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September 11, 2006I can't decide if I like this film or not. It's a really good film I just had a hard time watching it, it's very brutel.
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June 22, 2011In this different and arty Aussie thriller, the antagonist lacks convincing motivations, and those she has smack of a certain, sensational feminist self-righteousness, but this film is still an interesting pick for anyone tired of the same old Hollywood formulae.
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June 12, 2011Really bizarre movie...not completely horrible but really unusual and not a movie I would watch again.
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December 21, 2010This is the most disturbing film I've ever watched. I usually don't watch films like these but this one had an interesting summary (and it was streaming on Netflix). Basically a depressed wife gone-mad (for the most part) plans to get back at her husband for him treating her as a... read more
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November 1, 2010The guy that made Bad Boy Bubby makes another psychological disturber, this time about gender inequality within marriage. From the thoroughly ominous opening I was hooked, but how the video tape sessions carry on might uninterest some impatient viewers. The first half of the film... read more
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April 25, 2010Ok, this is a good movie. And there are valid points. Except I do not feel sorry for any woman who gets into a marriage and doesn't know until 10 years plus later that the marriage was a mess from the get go. This woman has preferences and was too quiet/passive to admit it from t... read more
Critic Reviews
January 28, 2005
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
January 28, 2005
Michael Booth, Denver Post
De Heer offers a wicked twist on household secrets and lies. Full Review
January 14, 2005
John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle
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 twist... Full Review
May 28, 2004
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
It's a movie that will leave few men unrattled and many women vicariously satisfied. Full Review
May 28, 2004
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger. Full Review
April 22, 2003
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
That damn videotape takes the edge off the mood both visually and dramatically.
February 25, 2005
John A. Nesbit, Old School Reviews
nihilistic film covers familiar territory in a fresh new way that is extremely memorable Full Review
January 15, 2005
Eric Campos, Film Threat
It's the tension and performances that pull you through, never letting your attention stray from what's going down on-screen. Full Review
January 6, 2005
Jeremiah Kipp, Filmcritic.com
confidently shot and scripted in clipped, emotionally direct dialogue that's thankfully not resorting to Harold Pinter, David Mamet, or Neil LaBute Full Review
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