2019 · drama · history · adventure
Amundsen
Directed by Espen Sandberg2h 5m2019
The story of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, and the first person to reach both the North and South Poles in 1926. Follows his all-consuming drive as a polar explorer and the tragedy he brought on himself and others by sacrificing everything in the icy wastelands to achieve his dream.
Our read: Amundsen (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · history · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
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