This one-man show is very good, starring Robert Redford as a nameless 70-something solo sailor struggling to survive peril after peril in open water. It opens with "Our Man" reading from his journal and there are no more than a dozen words spoken after that. I covered Redford in The Company You Keep; director/writer J.C. Chandor made his feature debut with Margin Call; and Alex Ebert, leader of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, composes the haunting music, clips of which can be heard on the amazon page.
Rottentomatoes critics are more enthusiastic at 93% than its audiences at 70, but this is another to watch for awards season. That said, sufferers of Motion Picture Motion Sickness (MPMS) should sit in the back row or wait for the DVD release in mid-February.
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