The Deep (2012)
(Djúpið)
Country: ICE
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir
Synopsis:
Life is gruelling enough for trawlermen on a volcanic island off the Icelandic mainland, but then one day their boat snags its net on the bottom and capsizes. At night, and in subzero temperatures, they must swim for the shore or freeze to death. One of them makes it.
Review:
One of those simple tales, based on real events, whose development and conclusion are known to most before they start watching; the handling is all in the truthfulness, therefore, and this does not disappoint. Kormákur favours credible ordinary people in his choice of cast, and the flat lighting and quotidian detail bolster the impression of an almost documentary reconstruction, with titles giving the time and temperature as well as locations. Nevertheless, humour and pathos are never far away from this tale centred around the happy and hapless Gulli, nicknamed Seagulli for his Old Man and the Sea-style conversation with same: he survives by virtue of being out of shape, and then becomes a curiosity for the scientific establishment, haunted by his sunken comrades.
(Djúpið)
Country: ICE
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir
Synopsis:
Life is gruelling enough for trawlermen on a volcanic island off the Icelandic mainland, but then one day their boat snags its net on the bottom and capsizes. At night, and in subzero temperatures, they must swim for the shore or freeze to death. One of them makes it.
Review:
One of those simple tales, based on real events, whose development and conclusion are known to most before they start watching; the handling is all in the truthfulness, therefore, and this does not disappoint. Kormákur favours credible ordinary people in his choice of cast, and the flat lighting and quotidian detail bolster the impression of an almost documentary reconstruction, with titles giving the time and temperature as well as locations. Nevertheless, humour and pathos are never far away from this tale centred around the happy and hapless Gulli, nicknamed Seagulli for his Old Man and the Sea-style conversation with same: he survives by virtue of being out of shape, and then becomes a curiosity for the scientific establishment, haunted by his sunken comrades.
(Djúpið)
Country: ICE
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir
Synopsis:
Life is gruelling enough for trawlermen on a volcanic island off the Icelandic mainland, but then one day their boat snags its net on the bottom and capsizes. At night, and in subzero temperatures, they must swim for the shore or freeze to death. One of them makes it.
Review:
One of those simple tales, based on real events, whose development and conclusion are known to most before they start watching; the handling is all in the truthfulness, therefore, and this does not disappoint. Kormákur favours credible ordinary people in his choice of cast, and the flat lighting and quotidian detail bolster the impression of an almost documentary reconstruction, with titles giving the time and temperature as well as locations. Nevertheless, humour and pathos are never far away from this tale centred around the happy and hapless Gulli, nicknamed Seagulli for his Old Man and the Sea-style conversation with same: he survives by virtue of being out of shape, and then becomes a curiosity for the scientific establishment, haunted by his sunken comrades.