2014 · thriller · action · crime
Open Windows
Directed by Nacho Vigalondo1h 41m2014
Nick is excited to discover he's won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, he receives an offer he can't refuse: the ability to view Jill secretly via computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star on her webcam, not realizing that this decision will put himself and Jill at risk as they enter a terrifying world of cat-and-mouse.
Our read: Open Windows (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · action · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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