A sort of Captain Kurtz without the war or the poetry (but with the formidable girth), eccentric Slovenian Martin Strel has made it his life’s work to swim the world’s great rivers in order to draw attention to their polluted states. Narrated by his increasingly concerned son, this fascinating film reveals the extent to which Strel is prepared to risk his own safety and sanity to attain his goal. —Edinburgh International Film Festival
Incredible story but I couldn't play along with alot of Maringouin's "mood" editing. This also left me quite concerned as it charts some troubling events yet offers little insight or closure to them. In interviews Strel seems quite eloquent and jovial and not at all as despondent as the film suggests, so maybe the filmmaker couldve benefited from some of his own perspective in the post-mortem.
Beautiful, moving, inspirational, sad and personal. A human story, an environment story, an endurance voyage, it wonderfully captures several elements and levels into one story of a man and his mission (to swim the whole of the Amazon) Deserves to be seen on a global scale and gets the recognition it deserves. Wooow...
Reviews from Telluride and Toronto may have been mixed, but Jason Reitman's Up in the Air got a bit of a boost yesterday when the National
