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Kang-ho Song, Ji-tae Yu, Hee-soon Park, Yoon Jae-Moon, Duek-mun Choi

A South Korean expedition is trekking across the Antarctic when they discover a journal left by a British team that was lost 80 years earlier. As they press onward, they begin to notice strange simila... read more read more...rities between the ill-fated British journey and their own. In the unforgiving environment where small mistakes can doom an entire party, the team steadily descends deeper into fatal delusions.

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Directed by: Pil-Sung Yim

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  • kiriyamakazou
    May 28, 2009
    kiriyamakazou
    I'd seen Yim's most recent film, Hansel and Gretel, and was completely blown away by it. Antarctic Journal is the polar opposite of that film in many respects. Hansel and Gretel filled every shot with a vast palette of colors and fantastic detail. Antarctic Journal, though beauti... read moreful looking, is pretty much empty and just white. Hansel and Gretel played on the warm cozy setting and here the film uses the open and ferocious landscape to do the same kind of work. It's a creepy well-acted chiller that never quite terrifies. The psychology of the characters is well developed but due to the slow nature of the film, it never grabs the attention. The film feels mostly like constant build up. The few final scenes are very haunting, especially the cold and bleak final shot of Song walking into the distance.
  • cacutshaw
    February 11, 2007
    cacutshaw
    i really like Kang-ho Song and was hoping to really enjoy this film (I have a soft spot for films that take place in the snow as well), but despite great performances, this one left me cold. Not a terrible movie, but unfortunately nothing really happens and when it does, I found... read more it hard to care. And the payoff was a letdown too.
  • sitenoise
    October 18, 2008
    sitenoise
    This is just a bunch of parkas and snow covered goggles barking at one another. I guess I just don't like manly man pictures where manly men do manly stuff like climb mountains with other manly men and during the expedition we find out that one man's neglectful manliness caused h... read moreis son to commit suicide and consequently all the other men on this man's manly journey start dying mysteriously for some manly reason. Oh, and there's supposedly creepy hallucinations along the way.
  • adamsgh
    January 8, 2008
    adamsgh
    The movie has a very bizarre, disorienting feel that is really cool to experience as a viewer, but there's a lot of hokey crap thrown in that doesn't belong.

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