Nadie quiere la noche (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Isabel Coixet
	Actors: Juliette Binoche, Kinko Kikuchi, Gabriel Byrne
	Country: E, F, BG
	Genre: Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 15.02.2015, Cinemaxx 7, Berlinale2015, Original English/Inuktikut version
Synopsis: Robert Peary, a polar explorer from the USA, is again on expedition to the North Pole. His wife, Josephine (Binoche), convinced to be able to follow him tries it and forces Robert Peary's colleagues to a dangerous journey as the winter is coming fast. One of them, Bram Trevor (Byrne) dies. On a base camp in Greenland she stops and decides to stay over the winter alone. But the young Inuit Allaka (Kikuchi) is also in the camp. Both women will then slowly come close to each other.
Review:  I wanted to watch this movie, incited by my polar friends, both the adventurers and the passionated. I just knew the plot and this sounds good. The story is dramatic, especially when both women understand that they are both waiting for the same man for the same reason of love. Additional steps enhance this drama that is solved for Allaka very fast and that is apparently solved for Josephine at the end only. The small things of the daily life of both women show that they are just not prepared especially Josephine. Unfortunately almost all the movie is shot in studios in Bulgaria. This damps substantially my enthusiasm. The acting is correct but sounds strange. Maybe the fact of not really living in the cold North. The few images taken from Norway to simulate Greenland are of relatively bad quality so that the beauty of the snow did not explode in my face as other documentaries. Maybe I had too many expectations because I saw already several movies, documentaries or not, on the polar regions, like Inuk and Chasing ice.
Rating: 4 /10