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Meander

Name: Meander
Director: Mathieu Turi
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Sci-fi
Released: 2020
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Cast: Gaia Weiss, Peter Franzen, Romane Libert, Frédéric Franchitti, Corneliu Dragomirescu

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Horror
Mystery

2020
Mathieu Turi
90 mins
15

Summary

A woman finds herself locked in a series of strange tunnels full of deadly traps. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she's there and how to get out, she will have to face the memories of her dead daughter. Horror, starring Gaia Weiss, Peter Franzén and Romane Libert. In French and English

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Kevin Harley

Like Gravity with more gore and a lower budget, this downbeat but gripping sci-fi horror mixes survivalist tropes with an allegory of grief. Gaia Weiss plays Lisa, a waitress whose daughter has died. After being attacked one night, Lisa wakes to find herself in a labyrinth of steel ducts and lethal traps, which she must navigate in order to stay live. Writer/director Mathieu Turi makes resourceful use of his escape room set-up, deploying countdowns and confined spaces to tense, claustrophobic effect. The sound mix unnerves, too, with scraping, squelching and clanking noises proving unsettling. Weiss's committed performance ranges from rage and terror to pain and resilience as she grapples with her mysterious situation. Is she in purgatory or part of an alien experiment? Or is her journey purely metaphorical? The climax is too vague to satisfy, but Meander works as a lean exercise in suspense with an emotional sting.

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5.4/10