Zero Kelvin

Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland has bigger things on his mind than a man-against-the-elements thriller set in the frozen wilds of Greenland. With Peter Tutein's semi-autobiographical novel Larsen as his jumping-off point, he's fashioned a full-blown, existential psychodrama -- like one of Joseph Conrad's Congo tales set in the Arctic wilderness of John Carpenter's THE THING. The story opens in Oslo in 1925 as the young, bohemian poet Henrik Larsen (Gard Eidsvold) accepts his publisher's proposal to travel to Greenland and write about the Jack London-esque thrills of life on the front lines of the fur-trapping business. But instead of excitement, Henrik...