White Hell - Eiskalte Jagd

This French adventure drama is quite good but foreseeable at the most, taking advantage of the migrants problem that Europe, and Italian authorities in particular - has to face. Clichés galore here, with the lead character Menochet decides to help this migrant woman. The settings are awesome and bring something of western element in this film that I will quickly forget. It could have been far better, and the ending too. I think it is too cheesy for my taste, not gloomy enough but the whole movie is not that bad. The only good thing, very unusual, I agree, is that there is no romance between this man and this woman.

It's a good thing the film isn't long, because there's nothing particularly captivating about it. The storyline doesn't stand out from the vast majority of mountain survival films, nor from films dealing with the refugee issue. The performances of the main characters are honest. The music is the film's strong point, along with its discussion of the difficult lives of refugees. There's little development in the first two-thirds of the film, and the side stories are extremely secondary in their treatment. It's difficult to find any credibility in the last third of this cinematic offering. Good for passing a 90-minute afternoon.