Turi had previously made the feature-length post-apocalyptic film Hostile (2017). Meander was the second film for French director Mathieu Turi who had previously worked on assorted French-shot films as a second unit director. What is going other perhaps that Gaia and the man in the car were abducted by aliens is not at all clear. Here we get a weird mix of alien tentacles/robot arms (?), an illusion of Gais Weiss’s daughter, cryptic clues that lead to a map of the labyrinth and a journey through sphincter openings before the apparent arrival at an alien planet. The latter third of the film goes off at a different tangent and leaves behind the claustrophobic tension. Gais Weiss trapped in the labyrinth of tunnels In fact, this may well be the most claustrophobic film that one has ever had the occasion to see. The tension as she navigates her way through these is seat-edge. The tunnels that Gaia Weiss makes her way through are incredibly oppressive – not tall enough for her to move in anything other than a crawl and with walls that constrict and force her to move through a small gap or between narrow grilles where she is forced to take shelter in tiny cubicles from flame jets and scythe blades pass through pits in the floor that lead down into water pools or crawl over a pool of acid along narrow ledges on either side. However, that doesn’t turn out to be the case at all and Meander proves to be a fascinating Labyrinth film that actually has more in common with a work like Cube (1997) or perhaps even more so the lesser-known Iron Doors (2010).Īs soon as we get inside the labyrinth, Meander promptly develops an incredibly claustrophobic tension. When she wakes up the tunnel, it seems like what we are in for is a locked room thriller. The opening has Gaia Weiss lying on a road in the middle of nowhere – we never find out why she does this – and being picked up by a man that she realises is a wanted killer. The capsule description made it seem like it was another copy of Saw (2004). Meander was a complete unknown when I sat down to watch it. As she tries to make her way through the labyrinth and discover its purpose, Lisa must fight with another person trapped in there with her. A wristband counts down a brief interval of time she has to make it through each tunnel before it closes off or is scoured by flame jets or scythe blades. Lisa then comes around to find she is trapped inside a labyrinth of narrow tunnels that are so constricted they only permit her to crawl. The woman Lisa accepts a lift but then realises that the man is a wanted killer the police are searching for. theaters and on VOD on July 9 by Gravitas Ventures.A driver on a lonely country road comes across a woman lying in the middle of the road. The thriller, which premiered at various film festivals last year, just opened in French theaters yesterday and will be released in select U.S. The movie follows a woman who – after getting a car ride from an unknown man – wakes up in a tube gets locked in series of strange tubes full of deadly traps and finds a bracelet with a countdown on her arm. Meander is written and directed by Mathieu Turi and stars Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen and Romane Libert. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music service to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. The album features the film’s original music composed by Frédéric Poirier ( Hostile). YASCORE has released a soundtrack album for the French sci-fi horror thriller Meander ( Meandre). Steve on ‘Living’ Soundtrack Album Details.Colin Gorton on ‘Living’ Soundtrack Album Details.
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