The documentary begins with a car zipping straight across Siberia’s Lake Baikal, which usually remains frozen January through May. And then the car disappears, plunging through the thin ice. Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captures the moment at the world’s oldest, largest, and deepest freshwater lake in an astonishing feat of fast-frame-rate cinema that showcases the power of water all over the globe. It also placed its director and crew into terrible danger.
Which becomes a theme that continues when they get to Greenland just in time to experience large pieces of glaciers to calf off into the water. Kossakovsky chased stunning images of water around the globe. The movie has no narration to explain where you are, or what’s going on. Kossakovsky improvised locations and shot without a script, trying to show the water’s point of view. The effect is hypnotic, haunting, and terrifying.
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