Review of Salt and Fire (2016) by Richard D — 04 Oct 2016
This is a really weird film. Ostensibly a thriller, Veronica Ferres plays the head of a scientific task force (which includes Gael Garcia Bernal) travelling to Bolivia to study and report on an ecological disaster.
Upon arrival in Bolivia, they are kidnapped by the CEO of the corporation responsible for the disaster (Michael Shannon) and held in a remote village. Why are they being held? Well ... not for any reason you would anticipate.
After the set up of the plot, the film very defiantly becomes a non-thriller. Shannon and his co-conspirator (played by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss) have very long, philosophical conversations with Ferres for the middle act of the film.
Then their purpose is revealed ... sort of ... and the third act is one long, amazing and very odd sequence. Not a film I would go around casually recommending even to Herzog fans, but one I enjoyed simply because I could relate to it's defiant oddness.
This review of Salt and Fire (2016) was written by Richard D on 04 Oct 2016.
Salt and Fire has generally received negative reviews.
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