A movie recommendation

A movie recommendation

 

Geirangerfjorden
(Wikimedia Commons)  We stood at exactly the place from which this photograph of the famous Geiranger Fjord was taken. It’s a vantage point used at the climactic point of the film, as well.

 

A few weeks ago, my wife and I watched a Norwegian disaster film called Bølgen (or, in English, The Wave).  It was surprisingly good (e.g., frightening).  And the disaster that it portrays is appallingly realistic, even probable.

 

"Bølgen" promotional poster
Movie poster for “The Wave”

(Wikimedia Commons)

 

The film was particularly striking to us because we were there, in Geiranger Fjord — which is the very place where the plot is set — at the end of August.  It’s a dramatically beautiful place, although this movie makes me wonder if I ever really want to go back there!

 

 


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