The Wall (2012)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 10
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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 1
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Based on Marlen Haushofer's eponymous feminist classic novel, THE WALL is a highly original exploration of the experience of solitude and survival set in a spectacularly beautiful Austrian mountain landscape. Martina Gedeck, the brilliant interpreter of the Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, brings a rare and vivid intensity to her role as the unnamed lead character in this contemporary female Robinson Crusoe tale. --(c) Music Box Films
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Martina Gedeck
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Ulrike Beimpold
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Karlheinz Hackl
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Wolfgang Bauer
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Julia Gschnitzer
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (10)
Bleak and beautiful, harrowing yet inspiring, "The Wall" ("Die Wand") is a stunning tale of isolation and survival in a wild and silent world.
Top CriticAn elegant, slow-burning exercise in narrative minimalism.
Pölsler's film is quietly deliberate without ever feeling slow, thanks to a few handy assets at his disposal.
It's a shudder-inducing original.
This mesmerising, austere and contemplative film provides a rarefied yet utterly immersive viewing experience.
A remarkably involving film, especially given its brave, self-imposed limitations.
Has any movie ever had so much gab on the soundtrack? Every confession, every philosophical tidbit of the movie's tormented female protagonist.
If you surrender to the style and premise, it's a rich and immensely rewarding film that begs repeat viewing.
The sheer quantity of voiceover - or, more likely, subtitles - acts as a barrier to deep psychological immersion.
Starts with an interesting concept but goes nowhere with it, giving the viewer too little with which to relate or comprehend and asking them to mistake the clunky narrative as "deep."
The Wall is a riveting piece of cinema, and given it bears such a simplistic, obscure narrative, Pölsler does a fine job holding down your attention throughout.
A beautifully photographed and elegantly handled existential drama.
A lover and a fighter. This will remind you to hold everything dear.
An elegant, stunningly photographed reflection on the human condition that is as odd as it is entrancing.
Julian Roman Pölsler's bewitching debut manages to be at once a creepy sci-fi parable, a feminist Robinson Crusoe and a clear-eyed ode to the wonders of nature experienced in solitude. Walden pond with added wall.
Call it a landlocked variant on Robinson Crusoe, but it's a hypnotic one, with a sense of mystery and interior life that are all its own.
The story is slow-paced and eventless but the cinematography makes the most of the landscape, while voiceover diary readings give us access to her thoughts.
Bold and beautiful, this is a mystery worth puzzling over.
The Wall is certainly [an] absorbing and intensely thought-provoking film.
A German/Austrian import so weighed down by a stereotypically angst-ridden voiceover of emotional numbness and philosophical despair that one could be forgiven for thinking Werner Herzog wrote it as a goof.
Gedeck, the only human on screen for almost the entire film, and silent other than her voice-over, grounds this fantastical premise in gritty, blister-handed reality, tending to her chores and her animals.
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Foreign Titles
- Die Wand (DE)
- The Wall (Die Wand) (UK)
