One Paragraph Movie Review: Zero Kelvin

Two hundred and ninety-first film: Zero Kelvin, or ‘Kjærlighetens kjøtere’ in Norwegian if your keyboard can handle it. A grim Nordic film about three very different men who find themselves in an isolated outpost in Greenland to hunt animals for fur, this is a movie in which not all puppies have a good time. Not all humans do either, including me. Its bleakness is necessary, as it forces the three main characters — a scientist, a poet, and a tough guy (played by the mean mathematician from Good Will Hunting, Daddy Skarsgard) — to make decisions about being men in desolate, tough surroundings. But that doesn’t make its bleakness fun. Fine if you like feeling terrible and hating dogs and not being aware that there are better things to do. One and a half realistic walrus murders out of five.