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May 12, 2021 · Shifting the project to French, says Aja, was “an opportunity to push the script to a sort of sci-fi that was even more mature and to explore the character’s humanity.”
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May 12, 2021 · French filmmaker Alexandre Aja’s newest film, Oxygen, finds Mélanie Laurent trapped inside a cryogenic chamber with a little less than 90 minutes of air left in her tank.
May 13, 2021 · A more substantial shift was deciding to make the film in French. Aja said Laurent was the first person that came to mind to play the lead role due to her “very rich range of acting skills.”
May 12, 2021 · Netflix’s Oxygen (Oxygène), a French-language thriller set inside a tiny cryogenic pod, went through a handful of iterations before landing as an eerily timely take on confinement.
Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, known professionally as Alexandre Aja (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ aʒa]; born 7 August 1978), is a French filmmaker best known for his work in the horror genre. He rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film Haute Tension (known as High Tension in the US and Switchblade Romance in the UK).
Oxygen (French: Oxygène) is a 2021 French-language science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Alexandre Aja and written by Christie LeBlanc. An American-French co-production, it stars Mélanie Laurent as a woman who awakens trapped in an airtight medical cryogenic unit, with Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi in supporting roles.
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May 11, 2021 · The talented Mélanie Laurent commands the screen as the mystery girl in question in this French-American co-production. Aja and Laurent spoke to Screen Rant about what attracted them to the project and how they worked together to draw out the necessary roller coaster of emotion.
