Stunning photography of icy tundra does not make up for dramatic weaknesses in this average story about a brother searching for clues to the death of his sibling in a forbidding environment. Erik (Thomas Eje) is newly divorced and a depressed, despairing man who arrives in Greenland after his brother died in a hang-gliding accident. He eventually moves in with an Inuit woman Soerine (Naja Rosing Olsen) and her son Nikki, whom Erik suspects is his dead brother's child. His search and suspicions are punctuated by other subsidiary, mini-dramas, and long, sweeping vistas of the ice-bound landscape.
Cinematography
Greenland looks stunning. Shame about everything else.
Acting
Thomas Eje commits to depressed divorced guy with unsettling accuracy.
Director
Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of few Danish-Greenlandic co-productions of its era, reflecting Denmark's complicated colonial relationship with Greenland—though the film treats Inuit characters as backdrop for Erik's white man pain.
Director Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt was primarily a TV director; this theatrical misfire explains why he returned to smaller screens.
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