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Synopsis: Peter and Chloe, a young married couple from New York, decide on impulse to take a belated honeymoon on-board a research vessel en route to the icy wastes of Antarctica. Not long into the journey, Chloe begins to feel neglected and betrayed by Peter, who is focused on gathering information for an article he plans to publish on their return about the work of one of their fellow passengers, the whale biologist Roger Payne. After an unforgivable betrayal of trust by Peter, Chloe turns their fledgling marriage upside down by moving into her own room and staking out her independence onboard the ship. Drawing attention to the poles within each of us, the impressionistic story oscillates between the super-confined interiors of the ship and the vast open spaces of Antarctica. In the end, it's not until Chloe and Peter are lost - perhaps literally, perhaps metaphorically - in the Antarctic ice that they discover how essential one is to the other.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Scott Cohen
Production: Thunder Perfect Mind
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.2
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
80 min
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Five minutes, okay?

I'll see you up there.

Me, again.

What do you want?

I want my wife.

Just go up without me, okay?

Don't wait for me.

Okay.

See you up there.

...thing that he can

take from the land.

And also on a bit of

a hunting expedition

which is his pastime.

And while he is there

he is, uh...

confronted by nature and also by

what's left of his capitalist soul.

But I also think that

the explorer represents

someone who is still at least

in touch with the natural world.

And someone who is going out to

cross or to walk to the South Pole

is someone who has the opportunity

to experience something

bigger than themselves.

And that has value.

Don't you think?

But they're always men, I mean,

these people, why is that?

No, no, I don't think

they're always men.

They're almost always men,

I would have to agree

and there is a lot of it that's devoted to

this obsession with geographical prizes.

I find that

a bit tiresome, you know.

Then, you'd need more and more modifiers

to describe what this is a first of.

Would you try to attract media

attention to whale research

and to coral and

acidification of the ocean?

Awareness is important,

very important.

And I've tried to attract it to, in a way

that is concerned with solving that problem.

See you guys later.

And the problem of an that

explorer is to just get there

and then say that

he or she has been there.

And I've never quite understood that fully,

I mean...

I, you know, Columbus didn't...

Going to Antarctica?

Yeah, it's good.

- It's exciting.

- What about our honeymoon?

Well, that is our honeymoon.

To, um...

Adventure Antarctica

and your work.

To writing about a place and then

getting the opportunity to go there.

That's really interesting.

So they actually land or

do they just swoop down...

No, no, they land. They do this

thousands of times, they enlarge wounds

until you get a whale which has,

I don't know, six or eight wounds

- down its middle.

- It's a good way to put it.

Collecting places,

collecting locations.

We're obsessed

with categorizing and...

They will fly down,

land on the back of the whale,

bite a hole in the whale,

and then fly off

with a hunk of meat.

You don't usually accompany Roger

on his trips though, right?

No, no, I don't.

I've been once to Patagonia

where he goes every year.

For his Right Whale study.

And I was feeling miserable.

The sun never shone.

It was windy.

I feel a bit, uh...

You know, out of place.

And, um, all the more so

because Peter seems

very much in his element

and I sometimes feel like

I don't know where to fit into.

But, you know, it's all well and good,

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