Released 20 JANUARY
ANTICIPATION.
Krieps and Ulliel make for an appealing pairing. 3
ENJOYMENT.
Strong performances and beautifully shot, but not really much meat on the bone. 3
IN RETROSPECT.
A perfectly pleasant experience to be almost immediately forgotten. 3
fter a visit to the infamous beach in M Night Shyamalan’s and a trip Vicky Krieps this time searches for fulfilment in the ice-cold Norwegian fjords in Emily Atef’s . Female characters searching their soul while floating in water is a rather hackneyed staple of contemporary indie filmmaking, but it’s done beautifully here. Cinematographer Yves Cape keeps the camera so close to Krieps’ body that it is rendered abstract – its peaks and curves become a landscape, a shoulder transforms into a mountain and goosebumps into rocky ground. The images mirror the hills surrounding the fjord, an almost metaphysical space which Krieps’ character can’t stop visualising when she’s confined to her flat in Bordeaux, inspiring her to make the pilgrimage to Norway for real.
