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Can a movie be both enjoyable and excruciating?
Depends if youre a glutton for punishment, which Im usually not.
Mikkelsen plays a man named Overgard whose plane has gone down in the middle of the frozen wilderness.
A couple of toes are half-gone, but he seems to have had time to adjust.
Did people go down with him?
If so, they didnt make it.
Then come the images: boots crunching on snow, some pounding, and some chiseling.
Overgard has been there a long time, and somehow we know we will be, too.
It looked good to me, but his expression suggests hes sick of sashimi.
If bone structure signals character, his face runneth over.
I could watch him for hours.
Arcticeventually gets another character, a woman (Maria Thelma Smaradottir) who looms large while remaining supine.
Shes wounded in the gut, racked by fever from the infection, and generally non compos mentis.
The movie really takes your mind off your own troubles.
I liked it a lot.
