The wave – Norway 2015. Directed by Roar Uthaug. With Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Fritjov Såheim, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Edith Haagenrud, Laila Goody, Arthur Berning multi
The undersigned reviewer must admit it. Despite the fear of flying and other irrational thing I’m afraid, so I love disaster movies. And therefore I have also seen my (large) share of them.
It was therefore with a certain expectation that I took cinema seat for the opening film in Haugesund Film Festival to see Roar Uthaug “wave”.
The film is based on the fact that mountain Åker Neset or Åkneset once will slide into the fjord and cause a huge tsunami that will ultimately be felt in Geiranger. Naturally, there have been differing opinions on that to make a film about such a frightening and real scenario “wave”. It’s not a discussion we shall take here. Neither the sure geologists assure that there is unlikely to be like in the movie.
wave hits: Kristian Eikjord and next door when the tidal wave washes over them.
The mountain stirs
But how Norway’s first great disaster movie that film? Yes, it is a whopping good genre movie with a successful and well-written script. We follow an intense geologist Kristian Eikjord (Kristoffer Joner) which will now leave the monitoring station for Åkernesfjellet nor take a lucrative job in the oil industry. The wife Idun (Ane Dahl Torp) to quit as a hotel manager in Geiranger and children Sondre (Jonas Hoff Oftebro) and Julia (Edith Haagenrud-Sande) follow along for the ride.
It’s just that the mountain behave so strangely, indeed quite the opposite of the geologists have researched themselves forward.
In the company of Joners gnawing sense, we follow that crowd the rising fear that now it happens, and when the slide does occur, it violently spectacular show.
There has been much focus on the wave that gives its name to the whole movie, and it is huge and impressive, but even more spectacular are the scenes in advance where Fritjov Såheim and Arthur Berning brings out a nerve that carries effects , more than the effects wear them.
Unexpected energetic Authorisations
Or when Kristoffer Joner takes her daughter and runs up the mountain road as life and straps holding, while the water gushes behind. “Wave” seems first and foremost optimally because the spectacular disaster scenes carried forward by enormous good play by both an unexpectedly energetic Joner, a completely carefree teenage son Jonas Hoff Oftebro and a highly professional yet pushed to the limit-Ane Dahl Torp.
“wave” has no budget as a Hollywood movie, even though these films are of course standard it yearns. But why has the director Roar Uthaug (“Cold Prey) made wise choices and placed other parameters in the action, funnily enough, told a Norwegian form of understatement that feels believable in the violent scenes.
head writer John Kåre Raake and Harald Rosenløw Eeg has given the actors natural lines that sound good to the ear.
The “wave” as a genre film represents little new international context, but in Norwegian film this heavy stuff!
The most important thing: This is a fictional film which provides tension from beginning to end, and that therefore “meet the public contract”. It is designed primarily to tear you, and it does.
“The wave” had not been half as good if it had not been for a thoroughly good acting from Kristoffer Authorisations and Ane Dahl Torp, down to the smallest supporting role. When “wave” hit, both literally and mentally it is primarily because the director has dared, and perhaps financially been forced (?) To make room for undertones and the small resting points in history.
“The Wave” ordinary premiere on August 28.
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