North Face
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Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings
- Starring: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek
- Summary:
- Director: Philipp Stölzl
- Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, History, Sport
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 3 out of 17
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90This is a film done right by just about every measure. The extremes of the story seep deep into your bones -- the beauty, the allure, the desperation and especially the cold in this world where life literally hangs on rope and what Mother Nature chooses to throw at you.
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80Transfixing in the way that well-told life-and-death adventure tales inevitably are. It is the film’s more mundane elements -- an awkward, under-nourished love story and half-baked politics -- that are problematic.
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75These fears explain why in its scenes on the Eiger itself, North Face starts strongly and ends as unbearably riveting. They also explain why it was a strategic error to believe this story needed romantic and political subplots.
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60All the retroactively enlightened symbolism gets monotonous, and reaches an absurd apex with the introduction of a party-line newspaperman played by that scowling emblem of Teutonic depravity, Ulrich Tukur.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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