Dubai Film Festival 2007: FROZEN

One of the films screening at the 4th Dubai International Film Festival’s Celebration of Indian Cinema sidebar is Shivajee Chandrabhushan’s feature-film debut, Frozen, set in the Kashmiri Himalayas.
Written by Shanker Raman (from a story by Chandrabhushan), Frozen follows a teenage girl living with her father and younger brother in a remote mountain village. The family’s harsh but peaceful existence is drastically disrupted after the army settles at a nearby camp.
Spoken in Hindi and Ladakhi, and shot in black and white (by screenwriter Raman) in order to better convey the region’s starkness, Frozen was filmed at freezing temperatures at 12,000-foot altitudes (approx. 3,600 meters above sea level) . Earlier this year, the film won the Special Jury Award at the [...]

by Andre Soares | December 4, 2007   
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FROZEN – Shirley Henderson – d: Juliet McKoen

Frozen (2005)
Director: Juliet McKoen
Screenplay: Juliet McKoen and Jayne Steel
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Roshan Seth, Richard Armitage, Jayne Ashbourne, Les Audley, Nick Bagnall, Jamie Sives
 

 

The tale of a young fishery worker obsessed with the mysterious disappearance of her older sister, Frozen is a curious mélange of psychological drama and metaphysical mystery-thriller. The end result, however, is a mixed bag. The story, though conceptually intriguing, lacks coherence, and Scottish actress Shirley Henderson is seriously miscast as the borderline-pathological heroine.
On the positive side, director Juliet McKoen ably captures the atmosphere of gloom and emptiness of a drab fishing town on Britain’s northwestern coast, while the film’s key revelation, even though it trails several farfetched plot developments, is appropriately surprising and disturbing.
What to [...]

by Andre Soares | December 3, 2004   
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