"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
The 1972 crash in the Andes of a charter flight from Uruguay and the harrowing ordeal of its survivors get intense treatment in this Spanish-language feature from Netflix.
'The Society of Snow', the new film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona which closes the Venice Film Festival, is a new adaptation of the story of a plane crash in the Andes and its survivors.
Spanish director J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow,” a reconstruction of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes that forced survivors to take extreme measures, including cannibalism, has been set as the Venice Film Festival’s closing film. The deeply immersive Spanish-language saga is a Netflix original film shot in Andalusia’s Sierra Nevada, mainland Spain’s highest mountain […]