Open Windows

It's nice to have one of the top films of SXSW brought back to Austin, though that's a given as the film was created through Fantastic Fest.

Nick Chambers (Elijah Wood) is the lowly webmaster of jillgoddard-caught.com, a website dedicated to the famous actress.  He's won a contest to interview Jill herself (Sasha Grey).  When the interview is cancelled, a disappointed Nick is cajoled into some subtle spying, which quickly escalates into a race against the mysterious Chord (Neil Maskell) to find and save Jill.

Taking place entirely within windows on Nick's computer screen, Open Windows flourishes under its self-imposed constraints.  The only parts that seemed to falter was when I though they'd left that screen.  It thus has a few weak spots, but is overall a solidly fantastic film.

Open Windows

2014, 100 minutes, directed by Nacho Vigalondo