‘Society Of The Snow’ Review: J.A. Bayona’s Thrilling Account Of 1972 Uruguayan Rugby Team Airplane Crash Closes Venice Film Festival
deadline.comThe story of the harrowing 1972 crash of the airplane carrying members of the Uruguay Rugby team in the remote snowy mountains of Argentina has been told cinematically a few times before.
There was a rather crass version released in America as Survive! in 1976, and later a notable take on the story from director Frank Marshall called Alive through Disney studios and starring Ethan Hawke and others in 1993.
But now with Netflix’s Society Of The Snow director J.A. Bayona, who has previously found compelling stories depicting the will to survive in unspeakable human disasters, has made his own version of events of the half-century old story.
The director of the 2012 The Impossible about tourists and locals caught in a killer Tsunami in Thailand has taken a different approach here and based this stunning account on Pablo Vierci’s novel about it that was written 36 years after the actual crash.
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