“The woman in the window”: the new thriller starring Amy Adams and Gary Oldman arrives on Netflix

Almost a year and a half after the release of the first trailer The woman at the window, the new film by Joe Wright, former director of The darkest hour and of Atonement, is finally ready to be seen by the public. After a very troubled production that started with Twenty Century Fox and continued with Disney until the outbreak of the pandemic, to take the next step was Netflix which, in fact, will distribute the film all over the world starting May 14, exactly one year after the announcement of the theatrical release.

The film, based on the novel of the same name by And Mallory – who signed it under the pseudonym of AJ Finn – and adapted on screen by Tracy Letts, it centers on the story of Anna Fox, played by a great Amy Adams, a child psychologist who, due to her agoraphobia, is forced to spend all her days inside her New York apartment without seeing a soul but the woman who lives in the building opposite her and with whom she becomes friends . A bit like it The window on the courtyard by Hitchcock and Disturbia by DJ Caruso, the confinement of the protagonist will lead to helplessly witnessing a traumatic event consumed right inside the apartment that can be seen from the window.

From here the doubts begin: what really happened across the street? Are we sure of what we have seen or is it the fruit of our imagination? The formula de The woman at the window is the typical one of psychological thriller, with a paranoid woman on drugs who loses the boundary between reality and fiction and ends up, despite herself, inside a tunnel from which it seems impossible to get out. Along with Amy Adams, the cast is also enriched by Gary Oldman, with whom the director had already worked onDarkest hour making him win his first Oscar, of Julianne Moore e Jennifer Jason Leigh. In short, hold on tight and fasten your seat belts: it is very likely that this film will make you jump out of your armchair.