2022 · drama · adventure · history
Against the Ice
Directed by Peter Flinth1h 41m2022
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Our read: Against the Ice (2022) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · adventure · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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