Society of the Snow (15)

Source: Dan Loves Film

Dir: J. A. Bayona

Cast: Matias Recalt, Agustin Pardella, Felipze Gonzalez Otano, Luciano Chatton, Valentino Alonso, Francisco Romero, Agustin Berruti, Enzo Vogrincic

J. A. Bayona’s visceral retelling of the 1972 Andes flight disaster is an inspirational and equally traumatizing tale of survival

Back in 2007, Spanish filmmaker J. A. Bayona broke onto the scene with the release of his genuinely creepy, gothic horror The Orphanage. Having been endorsed by someone as influential as Guillermo Del Toro, you know that a then 32-year-old Bayona had plenty of potential, and his debut feature did not disappoint. The film would go onto become a major hit for a modestly budgeted horror film, resulting in Bayona securing directing duties on his first major big-budget spectacle, The Impossible (2012). The emotionally traumatic disaster movie centred around the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and became an instant box office smash in the director’s native Spain, and still over a decade later remains the second highest grossing Spanish production of all time, only being topped by Alejandro Amenabar‘s The Others (2001)…

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