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“Happy End” is one of the most well-played Swedish films in a long time, John Croneman writes. Björn Runge’s direction is tight and the result is a showcase in acting. I have not exactly been impressed by Björn Runge’s two previous films in the so-called Liberation Trilogy. (…) Now I see “Happy End”, [...]
From Peter Debruge at Variety.com… After nearly a seven-year absence, director Peter Weir makes his long-awaited return with “The Way Back,” an impressive but not especially immersive true story of four POWs who escaped the Siberian Gulags and crossed the Himalayas on foot to freedom. Acquired by Newmarket Films immediately before its Telluride Film Festival [...]
From Stephen Farber at The Hollywood Reporter today… Bottom Line: Epic filmmaking hits most of the right notes. Peter Weir is rightly regarded as one of the world’s master filmmakers, but he has not made a movie since 2003′s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” which surely reflects the growing challenges for [...]
From Cinematical.com… Peter Weir’s The Way Back enters the canon of survival films as perhaps the most sadistically intent on making you feel as much of its subjects’ physical agony as possible. Despite its impeccable awards pedigree and prestige pic status, it may be too straight-up harrowing to get much traction, either with the Academy [...]
