It’s effective as an experience but less so as a narrative whole. Instead, Turi seems more interested in using Lisa’s journey as a loose allegory for grief. Logic quickly collapses under scrutiny, and details that should seem important don’t matter much at all by the end. Turi doesn’t bother to fill in any blanks or handhold when it comes to answers or explanations. However, the true star belongs to the sound design, which gives a visceral, tangible quality to everything Lisa encounters. The filmmaker also brings the pain, putting his character the wringer. Turi injects some nightmarish imagery, both in the form of an antagonist and an aid to Lisa’s quest.
It makes creative and innovative use of minimal space. The production design goes far in making the tunnel system feel more expansive, and it doubles as the only worldbuilding offered. When it counts down, bad things happen, prompting Lisa to think fast or suffer dire consequences. Lisa spends much of the early sequences learning the dangers of the tunnels and how it correlates to her timer.
Much of that tension comes from the emphasis on time. Writer/Director Mathieu Turi finds innovative ways to create tension in a threadbare story that spends almost all of its runtime with a single character. Meander is almost entirely a one-woman show, with Lisa bellycrawling along the compact confines of the tunnel. The moment she finds her way out of the box, the true challenge begins Lisa must navigate her way through a tunnel system designed to kill her at every turn. When she comes to, she’s no longer on the road but trapped in a high-tech box with a timer strapped to her wrist. He slams on the brakes, and Lisa’s head collides with the dashboard. Then the radio announces news of a murder suspect at large, with a description that matches Adam. Alarm bells should trigger, but Lisa’s preoccupied with guilt and sorrow over the loss of her daughter. Lisa ( Gaia Weiss ) lies in the middle of the road, alone, until a driver, Adam ( Peter Franzen ), passes by and offers her a ride. It’s a bit too simple narratively, but it succeeds as experiential horror that brings intense, claustrophobic suspense. But Meander takes an even more straightforward approach, following one protagonist on her harrowing fight for survival. Both center on characters that awake in a bizarre sci-fi environment rigged with deadly traps, unaware of how they got there. It’s also a character study of sorts: “Apart from all these traps, I thought it would be interesting to focus on what’s inside Lisa.The imagery and setup for Meander invoke instant comparisons to Vincenzo Natali’s Cube. However, he addresses that Meander is about so much more than fear. I really wanted to use that feeling to tell a story.” But it works very well in cinema, in movies like Buried or Cube. It’s in all of us we are afraid of being stuck like that. “I am not claustrophobic at all, but even I would be frightened watching this kind of movie. While in conversation with Cineuropa, director Mathieu Turi opened up about the universal fear of the claustrophobic situations he explores in the film: nu2RlRY3Gm- J“It works very well in cinema…” The movie will be released in theaters and On Demand on July 9, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures. This content could not be loaded See moreĬomingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from the upcoming horror thriller #Meander starring Gaia Weiss.
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