'Arctic' (2018) - Joe Penna.

Following a catastrophic plane crash, the world's greatest Dane, Mads Mikkelsen starkly finds himself stranded in an especially desolated rocky expanse of ice and snow, an unforgiving, frozen tundra, whereupon the majestically grizzled, supernaturally Stoic Mads must meticulously eke out a witheringly rudimentary existence, diligently maintaining his large, snow-etched S. O. S signal, the daily ordeal of ice fishing, and robotically working the hand-operated distress beacon; this meagre, will-sapping, desperately solitary monotony, shifting to an altogether more precarious predicament as he undertakes a truly gruelling ordeal, as he begins his relentlessly grim pilgrimage towards another distant location where the greatly beleaguered survivor ardently hopes to find refuge. Joe Penna's ferociously frostbitten 'Arctic' is a palpably glacial, beautifully shot nightmare, and having to so intimately witness this brave, uncommonly resilient man surmount increasingly grim odds is a frequently frustrating, darkly fascinating, wholly immersive, beautifully human drama about this seemingly exceptional individual's indomitable will to survive in a cruel environment almost entirely inimical to human life! While emotionally arduous, 'Arctic' is a wonderfully edifying film experience, proving to be an rigorously heroic adventure with a big heart, and more than a little Herzogian heft!