Which leaves the audience a bit bewildered. Is it the story of a hero? An icy crank? A loner? A lover? A man who wanted to give something to the world? Or to take something for himself? The answer is: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
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“Amundsen” is a visually stately yet naggingly underscripted movie that never quite finds its dramatic center. It’s quite another for the film to do so. That’s why he’s always onto the next one.īut it’s one thing for Amundsen to treat the people in his life with a kind of distracted carelessness. He uses and discards people and doesn’t seem to take much pleasure in his accomplishments.
The film’s star, Pål Sverre Hagen, is tall, with a warm smile, and bears a striking resemblance to the real Roald Amundsen, but he deliberately makes himself into an uningratiating cold fish - a man of forbidding single-mindedness, one who isn’t fully himself unless he’s battling the elements. But it also wants to paint a portrait of who he was back in Norway, and that’s where it runs into problems. The movie shows us who Amundsen was when he was on the ice (ingenious, fearless, often heartless). “Amundsen,” on the other hand, has a lurching rhythm that suggests a much longer movie - almost a miniseries - that was trimmed down, rather arbitrarily, for more efficient consumption. But the 2018 Mads Mikkelsen movie “Arctic” (which I highly recommend) was about nothing more than one man stranded in the Arctic, dragging himself across the icy tundra for miles and miles, trying to devise a way out, and the film’s very deliberateness was intoxicating it didn’t cheat, but it didn’t loosen its grip either. “Amundsen” has enough adventure to tease you, all laid out with a diary-like verisimilitude that’s tantalizingly matter-of-fact. Since Amundsen achieves his South Pole triumph a mere 45 minutes into the 2-hour-and-5-minute movie, you may wonder, “So when is the greatest expedition coming?” The movie features a number of the Arctic treks that Amundsen embarked on over the course of 17 years (one of them lasts for 7 years), and during these explorations he gets mauled by a polar bear, leads his crew in eating dog meat (from sled huskies they’ve shot), sits in a schooner for months surrounded by expanding ice floes that sound like ghosts as they slowly crush the boat, and generally acts like a man who treats survival as a pesky afterthought. One of them is the aging Roald Amundsen (Pål Sverre Hagen), who reveals a hawkish profile of calm, imperious, almost sneering indomitability the other is a man who can no longer feel his feet. The movie opens with two men in a propeller plane conking out in the middle of the icy nowhere. “Amundsen” has scattered moments of tense physical drama, set against glacial Arctic vistas of fantastic authenticity. 14, 1911), so when you watch “ Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition,” you may think you’ve got a good idea of the movie you have in store: an adventure at once exciting and treacherous, set in the frozen wilderness, with a stoic Nordic hero at its center - the kind of man who might have been played a few decades ago by Max von Sydow.
The famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole (on Dec.
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