Film info

The Last Winter

BAFICI 2009
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Info
Year:

2007
Original Title:

The Last Winter
Países:

Estados Unidos Islandia 
Director:

Larry Fessenden

Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

101 min
Cast:
  • Ron Perlman, James LeGros, Connie Britton
Production:
  • DIRECCIÓN: Larry Fessenden
  • GUIÓN: Larry Fessenden, Robert Leaver
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Magni Ágústsson
  • MONTAJE: Larry Fessenden
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Larry Fessenden, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte

Synopsis

A group of scientists, adventurers, company delegates, and diverse specialists are in Alaska with the purpose of evaluating, authorizing or even preventing the search and extraction of more oil. The Last Winter is an ecological horror film: according to Nathan Lee in The Village Voice, it’s the most chilling of global-warming movies. Actor/director Fessenden knows how to create tension almost throughout the entire movie without ever resorting to great effects, relying on a threatening tone, the conflicts between characters, tense dialogue and what isn’t shown: the gloomy “outside”, an outside that is too white, too cold, too impregnable. Yes, of course, The Last Winter reminds us of John Carpenter’s The Thing, and that’s all right. Fessenden, considered an independent fright-flick auteur, has the best influences, and here, as in Wendigo (2001), he explores the threats that underlie the ground we stand on.