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Emulating Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window— in this film, The Neighbors’ Window, an older couple spends their time watching a younger couple across from their apartment building. Alli and Jacob watch as their neighbors have intercourse, interact with one another and love together. The film is directed, written and produced by Marshall Curry and the Director of Photography, Wolfgang Curry, is invested deeply in the process of creating a world that is altogether realist and minimalist to depict the environment of New York. This process takes the form of an extended evaluation of the individuals’ marriage involved in the observation. The film focuses on the failing components of the senior couple’s marriage and the fatigue in their relationship.
Maria Dizzia plays Alli, the producer’s wife, who watches the couple from afar while her husband enjoys business conferences and calls with officials in the music business. The film also centers on Alli’s growing interest in the lives of her two attractive neighbors, who have sex openly for the world to see through their glass window. Alli is obsessed with the neighbors’ fast-paced life because it contrasts the dull existence which plagues the life of her three child home led by an absent husband. The extent to which the couple engages with the distant obsession negatively affects their marriage. Alli also loses communication with her husband, Jacob, played by Greg Keller. Alli continues to spy on the couple, then witnesses the neighbor husband’s death. She becomes distraught. Alli goes to see the grieving neighbor to create an environment of recovery for her. The neighbor then reveals that she has watched Alli and Jacob from the outside of their window as well, gaining perspective into their lives. The spying relationship was mutual. Both parties observed one another and both admired something about each other’s lives.
This film premiered at Tribeca, Sundance, and film festivals across the globe. This is a wonderful watch and PROVOKR believes everyone NEEDS to watch this film.
