After watching the rest of Akira Kurosawa’s Noir, “The Idiot” I started thinking about movies where snow plays a huge role in the plot or ambience of a film. Today’s post will highlight a few of them. The first one is where a family in Sweden takes a 5-day skiing vaca to spend quality time…
Tag: Force Majeure
Castigation in Film
Today’s word of the day is castigation, which M-W defines as, “to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism”. In a bit of synchronicity, I watched a library loan movie, “Force Majeure” (2014), aka “Turist”, last night, which is a meticulous study of castigation. Imdb gives the minimal description, “A family vacationing in the French…
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