WTFilms is handling worldwide sales on MEANDER, and they have released the first still from the movie… a still which is oddly low quality, but at least it gives us a look at Weiss in action. WTFilms co-produced, and the company's Gregory Chambet acknowledged that MEANDER's "contained concept" is reminiscent of the 1997 film CUBE, which "to this day has rarely been equaled." With Mathieu’s vision added to Gaia’s talent, we have no doubt this will be a breathless film which will keep the audience on the edge of their seats." MEANDER was produced by Fulltime Studio's Eric Gendarme, Thomas Lubeau, Marc Olla and Jordan Sarralie, with Cinefrance Studios' Sandra Karim, Julien Deris, and David Gauquie. She was joined in the cast by Peter Franzen as a man with mysterious intentions. Her only option is to keep moving forward, but it is not clear how far she can get. I'm less familiar with Weiss than I was with Marlohe, but I'm still on board to give MEANDER a look.Ī woman who wakes up in a labyrinth of strange tubes full of deadly traps. It has been revealed that MEANDER actually stars Gaia Weiss of Vikings and THE LEGEND OF HERCULES (the one that had Kellan Lutz as Hercules). But it doesn't look like Marlohe was still attached to the project by the time it went into production. That was enough to guarantee that I would be watching the movie, because I loved Marlohe's performance in SKYFALL. Turi had previously made the feature-length post-apocalyptic film Hostile (2017).When we first heard about writer/director Mathieu Turi's sci-fi horror film MEANDER last year, it was set to star SKYFALL Bond girl Berenice Marlohe. 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 meander verb (NO PURPOSE) I If a text, process, or activity meanders, it has no clear purpose or direction: The film meanders along with no particular story line. 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. A driver on a lonely country road comes across a woman lying in the middle of the road.
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