Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991)

Two famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first.

Lacklustre performances and clunky dialogue mar a good story with great landscape photography; the "Herzog touch" can be found only in occasional moments.

Halliwell*: "Spectacular photography compensates for a muddled narrative about obsessive people."

Mathilda May

The Jackal (1997)

An imprisoned IRA sniper is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Competent remake of a classic thriller.

Mathilda May

ph: Bettina Rheims

Le cri du hibou (1987)

aka
The Cry of the Owl
Der Schrei der Eule West Germany




A young man is recovering from a divorce and falls for a neighbour's wife which leads him into the depths of a conspiracy.

Competent adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel delving deep into a moral swamp of passion, hate and insanity.