The Wall

I wish it was Pink Floyd!  Another dystopian outing, this time set in the beautiful Austrian Alps, tells the ridiculous tale of a self absorbed woman being trapped alone by an invisible wall.  Bunuel did it well in "Exterminating Angel",  TV's "The Prisoner" addressed many of the same issues, and Jean Hegland wrote an engaging post apocalyptic novel [Into the Forest] of feminist strength but The Wall  rehashes it all in the guise of a woman having to learn the "Old Ways" to survive.  The voice over narrative [her simplistic "journal"] tries so hard to sound profound that it renders her a cartoon.  I think Austria has submitted this as their Oscar contender for Best Foreign Language Film.  They must not have had much to choose from.