2012
Baltasar Kormakur
…screened in order to cool down in the recent tropical weather…
Baltasar Kormákur’s drama trails its fingertips in a true-life story. In 1984, a fishing boat sank off the coast of Iceland and the local community was alerted to this disaster only when the sole survivor, Gudlaugur “Gulli” Fridthórsson, staggered dripping and shivering into town. Incredibly, he had swum back through icy seas in six hours. How did he cheat hypothermia? Scientists pondered what appeared to be a freakishly dense layer of heat-retentive body-fat, yet the mystery was never entirely solved. As portrayed by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Gulli is shy, plump, unassuming: he whiled away the time in the water by thinking of all the life-debts he wanted to repay. Intriguing drama, not great Hollywood narrative.
Film awarded by Oscar & Academy Awards.
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