Empire Australasia

5 OF THE BEST

ARCTIC

OUT NOW / RATED M / 94 MINS

The only characters are a man, a woman and a polar bear. The only dialogue is mostly restricted to crying and shouting. The only landscape is snow, ice, more snow, and some very large rocks covered in snow. Like or , is a dazzling exercise in minimalism, stripped down to the survival movie essentials to tell a simple, efficient story of a pilot who crashes somewhere in the Arctic circle. Shot crisply and

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