(2023, Spagna, Uruguay, Cile, 144')
On October 13, 1972, flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force crashed on the Andes as it was carrying a football team to Santiago, Chile. Only 16 of the 45 passengers survive, only to find themselves trapped in one of the most inaccessible, hostile environments on Earth: the Glacier of Tears, at over 11,000 feet of altitude. With sub-zero temperatures, with no food nor shelter, the young athletes must fight for their survival in an icy hellscape, pushing limits to an extent they didn’t know was possible. J. A. Bayona staged one of the most momentous pieces of news of the twentieth century by adapting Pablo Vierci’s book of the same name in one of the most anticipated Netflix productions of 2021.
Born in Barcelona in 1975, Juan Antonio García Bayona is one of the most appreciated Spanish directors worldwide. His feature film debut took place at Cannes with a horror movie produced by Guillermo del Toro: The Orphanage of 2007, which earned Bayona seven Goyas, including Best Direction. With The Impossible (which collected another five Goya Awards), the filmmaker turned to the international English-speaking market. A Monster Calls of 2016, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) followed. Bayona will switch back to Spanish for Society of the Snow, which employed a Uruguayan and Argentinian cast at the film set in Sierra Nevada.
