Obviously this is what this film is about. This leaves this woman completely cut off from civilization, society and basically everything she knows and loved. Reason: the Wall or 'Die Wand', an energy forcefield which keeps everything from going out or coming in. The couple leaves to take a walk but never returns. A woman (her name is never mentioned) goes on weekend in a mountain cabin with and elderly couple. A scifi concept movie I should say: there are no lasers or spaceships or any other hi-tech stuff to be seen. While browsing on IMDb for interesting scifi flicks to watch I stumbled upon this Austrian science fiction film. Maybe it gets a foreign run there's nearly no dialogue, most spoken text is just off-screen-quoting from her diary so subtitles or dubbing won't really take away much. ![]() Highly recommended if you're able to see this. The landscape, wood and winter sequences are just beautiful. ) - the story is bleak enough without much fiddling - we get the message. And I liked how they didn't color-grade the thing to death as happens sometimes (The Road, Children of Men. Most of the crew hail from TV productions but it's clearly visible how much fun they had with the wide format. From a technical POV this was excellent, filmed with a RED-to-35mm and much natural light I think. ![]() Also left out were any references to the cold war which were not that important in the book to begin with here the wall is more like a natural catastrophe and the story is much more timeless this way. My son (who didn't know the book) was impressed too. This seemed to work as WOM is quite good, everybody was discussing it on our way out. It was a bit toned down from the book - some of the more violent or disgusting passages were missing, I guess not to alienate the audience too much since the story is intense enough already. It's a last-woman-on-Earth-story - think about Robinson Crusoe, The Road, I am Legend, but very naturalistic except for the wall which traps the protagonist in a secluded alpine area. It's complete art-house fare but since the source material is one of Austria's great novels of the 20th century (it was written in the early 1960s) they gave this film a semi-wide release here in Austria.
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