Apartment 7A
Few filmmakers have been able to achieve the kind of genre redefinition that Roman Polanski did with “Rosemary’s Baby.” This horror film is, without a doubt, one of the most noteworthy movement in the genre of horror ever made. Besides a sequel which was released on TV, and a remake featuring Zoe Zaldana, the film is deeply embedded in the consciousness of every other film that is screened at this festival which can only be described as the Holy Grail of horror movies in the US. And of course, Natalie Erika James’s “Apartment 7A” is overshadowed by the likes of “The First Omen” which was released early this year and was also a horror film that concluded in similar fashion to how a horror classic begins, although, there is some context in which “The First Omen” can be considered weaker. However, “Apartment 7A” seems content with emulating the mother film’s style too much rather than having the confidence that “The Omen” had in turning “The Omen” into a cult classic. As a result, the only thing that can even slightly recommend the film would be Julia Garner, a very skilled actress in her own right.
The award winner of ‘Ozark’, Terry Gionoffrio portrays the character of Terry Gionoffrio in the film. Rosemary Woodhouse, who encounters Gionoffrio in the basement of her apartment, meets a brutal end when she is seen dead on a sidewalk. Polanski did such a terrific job creating this angle that eventually turned ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ into a ‘colonization of motherhood’. It is exactly what Joan emerges out of those months with. It is important to abandon the effort to ‘interpret the picture’; it simply can’t be done without the false notion of pantocratorism and totalitarianism. Women were subjugated by a hill of strains attempting to make her the bearer of the antichrist before Turner did.
In 1965, a dancer named Terry undergoes a terrible on stage accident, thus making her over-cautious of herself and insecure about the future. The audition scene that comes earlier in the movie is among the best in the movie it shows how she is repeatedly instructed by the director of the play to do the very thing that hurt her and how it obviously gets more painful as she performs the action. The producer of ‘The Show’, Jim Sturgess, is somehow fascinated by the spirit of the unflinching girl, probably because he feels that he has a chance to use her in order to make a barbaric show. The girl is not being quite auditioned for the usual role. Of course, we have all seen the famous scheme in the Ira Levin book and the Polanski movie where one guy tries to get a woman pregnant so there is a child at the end of the world.
A visit to his apartment building is a crucial factor in his downfall. He falls under the care of the Castevets portrayed by Dianna Wiest and Kevin McNally in this film. The former doesn’t go overboard in his portrayal of Roman, but in the case of the Academy Award-winner Wiest, Minnie is full steam ahead, seemingly trying to imitate Ruth Gordon but not quite getting it. Whether or not one should emulate an Oscar award winning role somehow seems logical. But where Gordon sounded effortless, Wiest sounds like parody of a caricature of a New Yorker. I was thinking about and hearing George Costanza’s mother more than a few times.
Of course, it is common knowledge that the friendly Castevets have a cult operating within the Bramford and that poor Terry is the newest victim. Although “Apartment 7A” has a narratively loose approach to its canon source, the last part is that we have an idea of what Terry becomes and that is a black cloud that hovers over the whole activity. Garner tries her hardest to emerge from this haze, but she is doing no favors to a production that has always had problems remembering what the original did best, which is, also, the most important thing, the location. Just take a look at the first scene in ‘Rosemary’s Baby.’ Look how Roman Polanski cleverly exploited this familiar territory but used it to suggest menace. It seems the production design has no character here. It is merely a stage.
And “Apartment 7A” is also not thematically complex in any sense as it jettisons the gaslighting narrative present in Rosemary’s marriage, now storytelling gaslighting even in this region. Is this a story of Arti who crosses a line? It would have very easily turned into a case study of derealization disorder “Rosemary’s baby” gets “Black Swan.” I would love to see that film, but the idea of terry being a dancer as part of the film seems more like a device used to develop the plot of “Apartment 7A” than attempting any meaningful exploration of the themes.
Still in the midst of all this mediocre cinema, there is Julia Garner, who is doing SO much with so little. She is unerringly decision able in her body language and speech, remaining tantalisingly engaged during the film and during her beautiful final click of the action. Ironically, for a narrative about an artist being made to be completely in her physical and ethereal essence and being limited to more than just her body, the outcome would be aimed at a medium.
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