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| Originally released: 1972 |
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Four friends take a canoe trip up river into the wilds. If it was made
today, this would be a feelgood buddy movie, or the Blair Witch Project.
Thankfully, it was made in Hollywood's last golden age, by a great
director on the top of his form. The result is one of the most enduringly
powerful visions of humanity's war with nature, and with itself. It's
restrained - filmed largely in long shots, carefully composed, and
very sparing with the violence - but totally gripping from start to end.
Reynolds is awesome, a force of nature, but it's Voigt, with his
doubting eyes, who becomes our shaky moral centre.
SF Said
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