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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary French glaciologist Claude Lorius discovered his destiny as a college student when he joined an expedition to Antarctica in 1955; land essentially untouched by scientific experiment. He would go on to participate in twenty-two expeditions during his long career, facing unforgiving conditions and brutal personal challenges that were rewar...

Directed By: Luc Jacquet

Written By: Luc Jacquet

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 29 m

Antarctica: Ice and Sky

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary French glaciologist Claude Lorius discovered his destiny as a college student when he joined an expedition to Antarctica in 1955; land essentially untouched by scientific experiment. He would go on to participate in twenty-two expeditions during his long career, facing unforgiving conditions and brutal personal challenges that were rewar...

Directed By: Luc Jacquet

Written By: Luc Jacquet

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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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80
Jan 21, 2016
Taking Lorius’ own incredible expedition footage and giving it a whimsical bent and a voiceover, Jacquet shapes a powerful portrait of the world and its soothsayer.
By Paul Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 20, 2017
As a result of Lorius and his team discovering that they could accurately date every nuclear weapon test from radioactive material found in Antarctic ice, there was an international treaty banning such tests, with over 100 nations signing on to it.
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70
Jan 19, 2017
The movie is both heady (there are real thrills in the stories of exploration) and sobering (Mr. Lorius’s findings are convincing). This is a cogent, accessible cinematic delineation of an increasingly crucial problem.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 20, 2017
If you can block out that verbal frenzy, though, the last chapters of Antarctica: Ice & Sky are, finally, a compelling narrative (who wouldn’t be interested in the idea of “fossil air?”) and yet another scientific explanation of global warming.
By Tricia Olszewski FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 19, 2017
The film itself is more a record than a narrative: proof to the future that, yeah, we knew.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 21, 2016
As one voyage turns to two, three and then four, Ice and the Sky feels increasingly formulaic in structure; however, it remains a thorough and fitting tribute to an extraordinarily dedicated and humble individual with an "incontestable message".
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40
Jan 21, 2016
A colossally overproduced white elephant of a movie that obfuscates both its own protagonist and his important message with layer upon layer of unnecessary “style.”
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Eskwad, Wild-Touch, Pathé, Kering, CNRS Images, Orange Cinéma Séries
Release Date Jan 20, 2017
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Bergen International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Hamburg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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