Romanian Film Review – Cold or Hot: Pick Your Movie Setting

Snow and frost: the new year has started with a lot of it. It inspired me to look out for snowy movies to fit the season and make a counter-recommendation in case you’d rather be counting down to summer.

Timișoara’s Cinema Victoria, always versatile, has a series dedicated to mountain films, a genre in itself, and one I’m a huge fan of. Their next showing is Martin Campbell’s Vertical Limit(2000), a film that’s been all over TV for years but always rewatchable. The story of a climb gone horribly wrong on K2 in Pakistan, the second-largest highest mountain in the world, is nothing new in terms of narrative or characters but it’s all thrill and spectacle, and the views are out of this world. Nostalgia bonus: starring Chris O’Donnell, one of THE romantic leads in the 1990s.