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Zero Kelvin

1995, Movie, NR, 113 mins

Zero Kelvin: Review

ZERO KELVIN | KJAERLIGHETENS KJORETE
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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 encounters more than his share of misery and angst: The trapping station is little more than a one room-charnel house set out in the middle of a frozen wasteland, and his only companions are an enigmatic scientist and hunter, Holm (Bjorn Sundquist), and the barely civilized station captain Randbaek (Stellan Skarsgard), who resents Henrik's cultivation as much as Henrik despises Randbaek's brutality. It's not long before the two are quite literally at each other's throats. Despite some game performances -- particularly from the hulking Skarsgard, who's currently also on view in Lars von Trier's very different BREAKING THE WAVES -- and Philip Ogaard's stunning blue-white photography, the film never quite generates the kind of heat that makes this kind of psychological thriller cook. leave a comment
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