DVD Review: Stranded: Andes Crash Survivors, Gonzalo Arijon: Movies & TV

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DVD Review: Stranded: Andes Crash Survivors, Gonzalo Arijon: Movies & TV

Posted by admin | on 3 May, 11:04 PM

Review
"An exceptional film, at once disturbing and elevating, deliberate yet powerful. It takes a story that we all think we know, one of the 20th century’s most familiar tales of resilience and survival, and demonstrates that we haven’t really known it at all." –Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times

Product Description
On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team called "The Old Christians" from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile–and then vanished into thin air. Two days before Christmas, 16 of the 45 passengers miraculously resurfaced. They had managed to survive for 72 days after their plane crashed on a remote Andean glacier. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to the crash site–known as the Valley of Tears–to recount in their own words their harrowing story of defiant endurance, intense spirituality, and indestructible friendship. Previously documented in the worldwide bestseller Alive (and the film adaptation starring Ethan Hawke), this shocking true story finally gets the cinematic treatment it deserves. Visually breathtaking and crafted with riveting detail by documentary filmmaker (and childhood friend of the survivors) Gonzalo Arijon with a masterful combination of on-location interviews, archival footage and reenactments, Stranded is a hauntingly powerful and spiritually moving celebration of humanity.

SPECIAL FEATURES
- 16:9 anamorphic transfer, formatted for widescreen televisions
- "The Making of Stranded": A 52-minute featurette with behind-the-scenes footage of the cast and crew, and additional interviews with the crash survivors
- U.S. theatrical trailer
- Optional English subtitles
- Director’s statement

A surprisingly uplifting film,

By 2things@once “2things@once” DVD Review: Stranded: Andes Crash Survivors, Gonzalo Arijon: Movies & TV 20095411542762577801 (Chicago, IL) -

In 1972, the small plane carrying a rugby team from Uruguay crashed in the Andes. After 72 days stranded in the cold and snow, 16 of the original 45 passengers were rescued. For the first time, survivors tell the incredible story in their own words, including the notorious cannibalism that saved their lives.

Atmospheric recreations, narrated by the survivors, give a chilling sense of the wilderness, isolation, and brutal conditions these people endured. When a group of survivors return to the scene of the crash in 2006 to pay their respects, filmmakers follow. Many of the survivors are accompanied by their children, some the same age as their fathers when the accident occurred. Sitting amid the gorgeous snow-capped peaks of The Valley of Tears 35 year later, these men are able to articulate their experience, including rare moments of profound beauty, in language that is heartfelt and hopeful.
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