Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
Director Baltasar Kormakur filmed on an actual trawler, which he sank, and its authentic-looking scenes will leave you shivering and reaching for a cardy.
– Cath Clarke,
Time Out,
9 Jul 2013
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Baltasar Kormakur's latest is a touching, low-key depiction of an incident in which a fishing boat sinks a few miles from shore.
– Alissa Simon,
Variety,
16 Jul 2013
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Even knowing the outcome ... doesn't diminish the intensity and awe of watching it recreated in this deftly framed docudrama by prodigious Icelandic auteur Kormakur.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
8 Aug 2013
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Kormakur's film suggests that the enigma of Gulli can somehow be found in his peasant humility, his connections to his community.