The opening of Werner Vivier’s carefully crafted drama Walls Like Windows leads us down a seemingly familiar path as an older woman sits awkwardly with a younger escort, yet what follows quickly upends our preconceived presumptions as to where this situation is heading. Among so much more, Walls Like Windows explores the immense complexities of grief, and the additional trauma brought on when isolation is added into that most volatile of emotional states. To reveal more about what transpires between Maggie and Leon – both roles embodied with nuanced excellence by Juliet Stevenson and Anthony Welsh respectively – would be to rob you of the pleasure of unravelling the mystery at play between these two strangers. What I can say is that Vivier’s intricate writing and direction, naturalistic approach to lighting, and cinematography which expresses the shifting tones of the on screen relationship belies the fact that this is the...
- 3/27/2023
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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