Kon-Tiki (2012)
Directed by Joachim Rønning
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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Now two Norwegian filmmakers have created a compelling new drama about the voyage of Kon-Tiki.
(If it ends up winning, it'll be the first Norwegian movie to take home an Oscar since the original Kon-Tiki, a documentary Heyerdahl and his team filmed en route, scored a statuette in 1951.)
Kon-Tiki, though never overtly stealing, mirrors the most effective aspects of films like Cast Away, Jaws and Mutiny on the Bounty.
The story immediately brings to mind classic tales of obsession like Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, about a man trying to pull a ship over a mountain.
Kon-Tiki, though never overtly stealing, mirrors the most effective aspects of films like Cast Away, Jaws and Mutiny on the Bounty.
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Heyerdahl is played by the blond Viking Pål Sverre Hagen, described by most reviewers as the spitting image of the lithe and dashing Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, but who looks to me more like a young, blue-eyed Max von Sydow.
From Headhunters (one of my favourites of 2012) to the overlooked Snabba Cash (Easy Money), fare from this region has never been more accessible or memorable.