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Frozen River
Released: 16/07/2009
Released in key cities
The icy landscape of upstate New York provides the setting for this thriller with a strong moral undercurrent. A woman’s husband takes off with their money, leaving her alone with their children. When she begins smuggling illegal aliens across the border for cash, the stakes become increasingly high.
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80 %
Guardian“Bold and uncliched...” Simply, Hunt has got a story to tell and, though it might verge on melodrama, you really do want to find out what happens next...
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80 %
The Times“As tightly wound as a thriller...” Hunt overdoes the symbolism occasionally — Ray’s elder son literally plays with fire at one point — but she builds an almost unbearable tension, which looms over Ray’s precarious plans for a better life like a gathering storm...
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80 %
The Independent“The film covers a lot of issues in a very tight space...” It falters only once, tying up the ends too neatly in its final minutes, but after what has gone before perhaps it can be forgiven its lurch towards a happy-ish ending...
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60%
The Telegraph“Hunt’s direction has a sinew her writing lacks...” It’s Leo, with her pained and battered magnetism - half-pleading, half screw-you - who shakes the film out of its occasional glibness, notching up the performance of her career in thrilling, hungry style...
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70 %
Channel4 Film“These are performances that truly know no borders...” It is more conventionally melodramatic than its realist postures might at first suggest, but in the end Frozen River is kept from sinking into icy oblivion by the brittle strength of its central performances...
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80 %
Little White Lies“Hunt puts her money where her mouth is...” Frozen River is also a taut, suspenseful thriller; a troubling of borders both cultural and national; and testament to the virtues of communion, empathy and compassion...
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80 %
Total Film “Don’t open the trunk…” Leo and Upham make an unlikely double act in a finely written, well-played film with a striking plot and setting. Hunt’s clearly a name to watch; Leo, meanwhile, can look forward to finally getting the recognition, and roles, she deserves...
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90%
New York Times Movies“Ms Hunt’s eye for detail has the precision of a short story writer’s...” If “Frozen River” is a social realist film, it has no political axes to grind. It is more interested in exploring the reluctant bond that develops between Ray and Lila than in suggesting any root causes for their situations...
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