Post by geode on May 24, 2019 7:17:31 GMT
I watched this yesterday in the one showing of the day at House RCA (my favorite theater in Bangkok) along with four other people. This is a low budget first directorial effort by Brazilian director Joe Penna. Its country of origin is Iceland, where it was shot. It stars Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and is a minimalist effort with very little dialogue, about 2/3 of which n English, with the remainder in Danish. None of the dialogue is essential and anybody anywhere could basically understand what is happening without the subtitles.
The movie starts some weeks into the start of the the challenge faced by a man marooned in the frozen North. Virtually no backstory is given. The location is unknown. The name of the main character is only known because it is stitched on his jacket. The only other character remains unnamed and for the most part unconscious.
There is even a Thai connection that added to the mystery. A couple of words in Thai are scrawled as a message on a wrecked plane. I think some assumptions about the nationalities of the characters were made after casting the parts. For instance their seems no reason to have made the main character Danish.
The movie starts some weeks into the start of the the challenge faced by a man marooned in the frozen North. Virtually no backstory is given. The location is unknown. The name of the main character is only known because it is stitched on his jacket. The only other character remains unnamed and for the most part unconscious.
There is even a Thai connection that added to the mystery. A couple of words in Thai are scrawled as a message on a wrecked plane. I think some assumptions about the nationalities of the characters were made after casting the parts. For instance their seems no reason to have made the main character Danish.
My original plan was to watch this at the nearby cineplex where it had one showing the day before, but "Aladdin" opened and took over most screens. I could have watched that or "Avengers: End Game" but I wanted to see this International cinema Indie so I went way across town to do so. I think I made the correct choice.
However, it does not seem to have done all that well at the box office.