Shooting the Sun

An austere Nordic skeleton, over which the screenwriter stretched a red screen of tense melodramatic motifs and grinding formal twists. He thereby unnecessarily undermined the archetypal story of a wanderer passing on his fate to a younger man... and mourning his own past. The excellent acting and the impressive image of a tilting ship take on water mainly due to excessive will and intemperance. (28/03/2010)