The Impossible (2012)
(Lo imposible)
Country: SP
Technical: col/2.35:1 114m
Director: J. A. Bayona
Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin (presumably because it is a Spanish film)
Synopsis:
A British family on holiday in Thailand is caught up in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, and separated. Through one stroke of luck after another, they survive and find one another again.
Review:
One of those films in which knowledge of the conclusion is almost a pre-requisite for entry, so uncommercial would any other outcome prove to be. In view of the impressive reconstructions performed by the production, including a landfall envisioned not once but twice, the makers for the most part eschew conventional dramatics and achieve moments of considerable emotional intelligence, aided by accomplished weeping on the part of Watts and McGregor (the boy unquestionably has the stiffest upper lip). As the family is finally whisked away to Singapore on a private flight, one cannot help feeling for the thousands of others left behind 'on the tarmac'; but what better emblem for the manner in which fate so clearly singled the Bennetts out for special treatment?
(Lo imposible)
Country: SP
Technical: col/2.35:1 114m
Director: J. A. Bayona
Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin (presumably because it is a Spanish film)
Synopsis:
A British family on holiday in Thailand is caught up in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, and separated. Through one stroke of luck after another, they survive and find one another again.
Review:
One of those films in which knowledge of the conclusion is almost a pre-requisite for entry, so uncommercial would any other outcome prove to be. In view of the impressive reconstructions performed by the production, including a landfall envisioned not once but twice, the makers for the most part eschew conventional dramatics and achieve moments of considerable emotional intelligence, aided by accomplished weeping on the part of Watts and McGregor (the boy unquestionably has the stiffest upper lip). As the family is finally whisked away to Singapore on a private flight, one cannot help feeling for the thousands of others left behind 'on the tarmac'; but what better emblem for the manner in which fate so clearly singled the Bennetts out for special treatment?
(Lo imposible)
Country: SP
Technical: col/2.35:1 114m
Director: J. A. Bayona
Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin (presumably because it is a Spanish film)
Synopsis:
A British family on holiday in Thailand is caught up in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, and separated. Through one stroke of luck after another, they survive and find one another again.
Review:
One of those films in which knowledge of the conclusion is almost a pre-requisite for entry, so uncommercial would any other outcome prove to be. In view of the impressive reconstructions performed by the production, including a landfall envisioned not once but twice, the makers for the most part eschew conventional dramatics and achieve moments of considerable emotional intelligence, aided by accomplished weeping on the part of Watts and McGregor (the boy unquestionably has the stiffest upper lip). As the family is finally whisked away to Singapore on a private flight, one cannot help feeling for the thousands of others left behind 'on the tarmac'; but what better emblem for the manner in which fate so clearly singled the Bennetts out for special treatment?