
Basil, a businessman and Chauffeur, Nick, drive into the heart of the rocky mountains in the midst of perilous weather. When the journey becomes potentially fatal, Basil must decide whether he's prepared to sacrifice his life for another.... (Full plot summary below)
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Basil, a businessman and Chauffeur, Nick, drive into the heart of the rocky mountains in the midst of perilous weather. When the journey becomes potentially fatal, Basil must decide whether he's prepared to sacrifice his life for another.
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| honeycuttshollywood.comKirk HoneycuttTolstoy's acutely felt story yields a prosaic film tragedy that may connect with festival audiences but few else. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerWriter-director Bernard Rose completes his Tolstoy adaptation trilogy with this engaging, painfully topical and sharply written drama, heightened by a terrific pair of performances from Danny Huston and Matthew Jacobs. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinHuston and Jacobs have a marvellously spluttery chemistry, even as events in the mountains reduce them to a pair of wretched creatures, clinging to one another while the cold night gnaws their bones. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawPerhaps no movie version could find an equivalent for the original's final lines, but this is another arresting adaptation from Rose. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmAs small-scale as Boxing Day is, it sustains an unusual atmosphere and an emotional charge of which Tolstoy might have approved - and both performances are memorably etched into it. |
| ScotsmanAlistair HarknessThe film unfurls through a series of brilliantly staged and intensely uncomfortable interactions between the supercilious Basil and the grating Nick. |
| Total FilmNeil SmithBleak as it is, its rigour proves darkly compelling. |
| Time OutDave CalhounProves timely and persuasive: as the weather becomes colder, so a thaw develops between Basil and Nick's more attractive everyman. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsTakes a bit of getting used to, but it's often very, very funny. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThere's a rueful wit in this character mismatch which becomes a sort of love match. Zen Buddyism. |