It was 23 years ago when I saw "Apartment Zero" for the first time. It terrified me then and it fascinated me. It also made me want to be an actor. That long before I discovered I didn't have any talent for it, but, it made me love movies. That intimacy that can be created between two characters is something I long for in a movie. Difficult to find now with all this loud super productions with things at its center instead of people. Last night I saw again "Apartment Zero" after so many years and it hasn't left my mind for a minute. What's with this movie? It gets under your skin and hints a something, something so private that it's even difficult to discuss it with people without revealing something about yourself. Colin Firth, now an Academy Award winner, was, then, already a sensational actor. His performance is so fastidiously detailed that I found new things this time. His longing is visible as well as his discomfort. Hart Bochner is terrific as a sort of chameleon becoming what his neighbor or victim needs him to be. A strange parallel because he doesn't seem to have a defined personality of his own. He's just anybody or everybody and nobody at the same time. The rest of the cast is an incredible collection of characters. Loved Fabrizio Bentivoglio as the neighbor with an emotional skeleton in his closet or the British spinsters out of an early Hitchcock film. I have never written a film review but I felt like talking about "Apartment Zero" and here I am, talking. Thank you for listening.
Review of Apartment Zero
