Review of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017) by Robin V — 15 Oct 2017
This is a masterpiece. In the format of an avant-garde homage to silent film, it tells the story of Dawson City, a gold rush town from the Klondike days and a grand cache of old movies that were buried there a long time ago.
Numerous celebrities passed through this speck of a boomtown in upper upper Canada in one crazy coincidence after another but the real highlight here is the way the movie explains why silent films were so short-lived and combustible that few of them remain to be enjoyed today and how this bitty town ended up with a massive collection of them entombed under an old theater which were dug up and spirited off to libraries as, in some cases, the only remaining copies.
Beautiful music, nostalgic presentation, and amazing story.
This review of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017) was written by Robin V on 15 Oct 2017.
Dawson City: Frozen Time has generally received positive reviews.
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