“The Girl Next Door is a feigned portrait of life on the other side of the fence; an irreverent take on cinematic voyeurism that illustrates a beautiful, banal existence in suburbia,” says director Daniel Sachon.
“Nadia Lee Cohen drifts through a world of domestic fiction as the unbothered and unwilling protagonist. Blissfully unaware and decadently detached, she neither speaks nor flinches. We watch. We ogle. We trespass. She simply exists, half-dressed and half-bored, imprisoned in the lawn-lined cage of her own making.
“Our neighbourhood voyage is narrated by two neighbours bound in a conspiratorial tête-à-tête, an exchange no one was ever meant to hear. It is accusatory, speculative, and thick with suburban juice.
“The film is equal parts stylized and self-aware, where mundanity is pushed to the brink through a dry, wry lens. A sordid snoop. A sun-soaked survey. A perverse peek at the girl next door.”
