Oxygen or
Oxygène in its original French perfectly taps into the claustrophobic anxieties of the ’rona age. Originally set to star Anne Hathaway (who starred in her own pandemic film,
Locked Down), then Noomi Rapace (who remains as an executive producer here), Alexandre Aja shot the film with a minimal cast (
Inglourious Basterds’ Mélanie Laurent eventually signed on) and crew in lockdown where the synergy between subject matter and the world around it couldn’t have been more apt. Aja, who has previously mined scares from killer fish (
Crawl), this time applies his prodigious technical prowess to a more complex study of isolation and identity. In outline, it sounds like a high-tech version of Ryan Reynolds’ trapped-in-a-coffin movie
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