127 Hours (2010)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara
Synopsis:
Aron Ralston sets off one weekend on a hike around his beloved Utah canyon, and falls down a crevasse, his right arm lodged beneath a fallen boulder. For days he chips with his climbing tool, sips at his water and records himself on his camera, while by night he shivers in the cold desert temperatures, until, his arm doomed to gangrene and his supplies used up, he takes the only decision he can if he wants to stay alive...
Review:
This film braves the certainty that viewers are almost certainly aware of its extraordinary basis in fact well before they have seen it with stylistic confidence and a honed-down rigour of conception. Boyle's split screen effects are a welcome return for what could be an irksome affectation in the sixties heyday of the technique, and he throws in hallucinations and multi-media editing to entertain and wrongfoot his audience in what could have been a painful wait for an excruciating resolution (from which he does not shrink, either).
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara
Synopsis:
Aron Ralston sets off one weekend on a hike around his beloved Utah canyon, and falls down a crevasse, his right arm lodged beneath a fallen boulder. For days he chips with his climbing tool, sips at his water and records himself on his camera, while by night he shivers in the cold desert temperatures, until, his arm doomed to gangrene and his supplies used up, he takes the only decision he can if he wants to stay alive...
Review:
This film braves the certainty that viewers are almost certainly aware of its extraordinary basis in fact well before they have seen it with stylistic confidence and a honed-down rigour of conception. Boyle's split screen effects are a welcome return for what could be an irksome affectation in the sixties heyday of the technique, and he throws in hallucinations and multi-media editing to entertain and wrongfoot his audience in what could have been a painful wait for an excruciating resolution (from which he does not shrink, either).
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara
Synopsis:
Aron Ralston sets off one weekend on a hike around his beloved Utah canyon, and falls down a crevasse, his right arm lodged beneath a fallen boulder. For days he chips with his climbing tool, sips at his water and records himself on his camera, while by night he shivers in the cold desert temperatures, until, his arm doomed to gangrene and his supplies used up, he takes the only decision he can if he wants to stay alive...
Review:
This film braves the certainty that viewers are almost certainly aware of its extraordinary basis in fact well before they have seen it with stylistic confidence and a honed-down rigour of conception. Boyle's split screen effects are a welcome return for what could be an irksome affectation in the sixties heyday of the technique, and he throws in hallucinations and multi-media editing to entertain and wrongfoot his audience in what could have been a painful wait for an excruciating resolution (from which he does not shrink, either).