This year’s Venice film festival gets off to a disastrous start with a fact-based thriller that’s light on thrillsTop of the world,ma? The Venice film festival has opened with the true tale of an attempt on the summit of Mount Everest in 1996, directed by Baltasar Kormákur who made the action-thrillers Contraband and 2 Guns. It’s a catastrophe movie that isn’t a total success. Everest is an oddly subdued drama with plenty of ice, or snow,beards, mountains, and men shouting desperate directions at each other through their snowy beards,above the deafening tall winds. There’s a bit of don’t-look-down vertigo as our climbing heroes are expected to cross crevasses using ladders they appear to bear bought from B&Q. And all the while the tremulous womenfolk are pining and whining on the end of a radio receiver or telephone while the heroic guys battle the elements. Related: Venice film festival takes on Everest as it regains ground lost to younger rivals Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com