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Oxygen (2021)

Oxygen poster
Original title
Oxygène
Directed by
Alexandre Aja
Genre
drama film, fantasy film, survival film, thriller film
Country
France, United States
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
14
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 1,567 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman wakes up inside a sealed cryogenic pod with no memory of how she got there. As her oxygen supply runs low, she must use a voice assistant to piece together her identity and find a way to escape.

claustrophobictenseurgentdisorientingisolatedpuzzle-likesuspenseful

What happens

Oxygen (French: Oxygène) is a 2021 French-language science fiction psychological 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. The film was released by Netflix on May 12, 2021, and received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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