Irrespective of the Oscar nominations coming out today, Rebecca and I watch Society of the Snow - a film about a famous survival story of a plane crash over the Andes in 1972. It was a real triumph overall, some genuinely impressive film making on display here thanks in part to some of the harrowing set pieces but also in the films pace and focus. There is an awful of of humanity on display here, the story obviously evokes that but the narration drives it home without ever feeling mawkish. That and the smaller moments of kindness the camera takes us to, the way a friend is buried and the diary entries they write to no one. Chuffed to see it nominated for best foreign picture - godspeed to it.
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