Netflix - Oxygen : Discover the trailer of the new Alexandre Aja's movie

By Mulder, 21 april 2021

Initially," explains director Alexandre Aja, "it was a script written by Christie LeBlanc that was on the "blacklist" in the United States, a list of all the best scripts that are not produced the year they are written. "The story was to be shot in English, in a studio in London, and was summed up in one sentence by the director to his partner Rob, who wrote the music for the film and with whom he has worked for more than 10 years: "It's the story of a girl trapped in a box. "The mystery is then complete. As the French language is full of misunderstandings," explains composer Rob, "I didn't immediately understand which box it was. I didn't know if it was a nightclub, a silena box, a cigar box..." Once the surprise wore off, the promise revealed itself, "It was pretty intriguing right off the bat, but when I realized it was literally a box like a coffin might be, the challenge was to thrill the viewer with a unique setting and plot in an extreme confinement. "March 2020 is coming, and the confinement with it. The notion of extreme confinement takes on a whole new meaning for much of the world. And, naturally, for the team. An exchange with Netflix turns into a crazy bet: "Alexandre, if we make it in French and you direct it, we can shoot it right away. ". As soon as the health situation allows it, the team is ready to shoot. They headed to Ivry-sur-Seine for the summer. What Christie LeBlanc wrote at the time was very prophetic... - Alexandre Aja

Oxygen is an American-French thriller directed by Alexandre Aja and scheduled for release on Netflix in 2021. Based on a script by Christie LeBlanc, the cast includes Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi. This is the eighth film by Alexandre Aja after High Tension (2003), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2009), Horns (2014), The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016) and Crawl (2019).

Synopsis :
A young woman (Mélanie Laurent) wakes up alone in a cryogenic capsule. She no longer knows who she is, nor how she ended up locked in a trunk the size of a coffin. As she begins to run out of oxygen, she will have to recompose the elements of her memory to get out of this nightmare.

Oxygen
Directed by Alexandre Aja
Produced by Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua, Noëmie Devide
Written by Christie LeBlanc
Starring Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi
Music : Robin Coudert
Cinematography : Maxime Alexandre
Edited by Hervé Schneid
Production companies : Gateway Films, Wild Bunch, Echo Lake Entertainment
Distributed by Netflix
Release date : may 12 2021

Photos : Copyright Netflix

(Source : press notes)