Venice 2023: Bayona's Harrowing Survival Film 'Society of the Snow'

"What happened to us? What happens when the world deserts you?" Another film I was lucky to watch on the big screen at the 2023 Venice Film Festival this year was the latest film by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona (director of The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom). It's called Society of the Snow, also known as La Sociedad de la Nieve in Spanish, adapted from the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. For his fifth feature, Bayona decided to head to South America to tell the famous story of the scary crash and survival of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. This is the same story told in the 1993 movie Alive, directed by Frank Marshall, which anyone who grew up in the 90s is absolutely familiar with for grotesque reasons. This is all a part of the story, a key part of the story, as it's a survival thriller. In the real world, their story became known as the "Andes flight disaster" (Tragedia de los Andes) and "Miracle of the Andes" (Milagro de los Andes). This is their story told on screen... Again. // Continue Reading ›

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