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Well-paced, smartly directed and thoroughly suspenseful
- Somewhere between 1984 and The Matrix, Open Windows exists in an improbable realm of techno fiction that edges closer to fantasy than present day reality. It relies on tired clichés and overlooks common sense logic, often breaking its own made-up rules in the process. Yet, for all that, it’s well-paced, smartly directed and thoroughly suspenseful.
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Nov 7, 2014 · Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows goes from crazy to Crazy to CRAZY, but maintains enough energy and cultural currency to keep the entertainment value high.
Nov 7, 2014 · Open Windows has plenty to say about both the death of privacy and the dominion of the always-connected digiverse we now inhabit, and editor Bernat Vilaplana does a remarkable job of keeping the film’s frenetic pace rushing headlong toward an ending that you’ll never see coming.
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Oct 2, 2014 · Posted: Oct 2, 2014 4:51 pm. Nacho Vigalondo’s fortuitously topical thriller Open Windows rests entirely on a gimmick that at times borders on the absurd. Somewhere between 1984 and The Matrix,...
- Adam Dileo
Mar 21, 2014 · A fiendishly inventive thriller built around an audacious if unsustainable gimmick, “Open Windows” elevates Hitchcockian suspense to jittery new levels of mayhem and paranoia.
OPEN WINDOWS is a high-concept thriller that works better as an exercise in form and style than as a movie. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo, and starring Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey, the story is about a guy named Nick Chambers (Wood) who wins a date with actress Jill Goddard (Grey) through an online contest.
Nov 7, 2014 · print. Nacho Vigalondo knows how to push our cultural buttons, and Open Windows works as both a crackerjack suspenser and an intellectually chewy meta-commentary on our current fascination with...
Open Windows is undeniably ambitious; unfortunately, director Nacho Vigalondo's reach far exceeds his grasp. Read Critics Reviews
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