Kon-Tiki Trailer: Norway’s Epic Oscar-Nominated Adventure
By the time the Oscars roll around, most of the major nominees have at least had a limited theatrical release and are known quantities to some extent. However, when it comes to the Best Foreign Film category, you can usually count on at least a few of the nominees being ripe for discovery, with the Oscars serving as their first real exposure to North American audiences. This year Kon-Tiki was one such movie, and although it couldn’t beat Michael Haneke’s Amour, the clips shown from the movie looked intriguing to say the least.
The Weinstein Company will be distributing the movie stateside, and on Friday they released a domestic trailer to help build some buzz. It is based on the true story of Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian ethnographer who set sail from South America to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft in order to prove his theory that previous settlers followed the same journey. The movie was actually shot out on the ocean as opposed to a set and is Norway’s most expensive movie to date. Kon-Tiki hits select theatres on April 19th; check out the trailer after the jump and see what you think.
Comments (7)
I don’t think anyone can watch that trailer and not have Life Of Pi on their mind. I’m really looking forward to this though, hoping that like Pi the majority of the film will be on that boat.
Posted by Sven on February 25th, 2013Is the movie in English?
I was wondering about that. Apparently they shot two different versions of the movie, one in English and one in Norwegian.
Posted by Sean on February 25th, 2013Not sure about the different versions, but the version I saw was mostly in Norwegian. At the beginning, the character is trying to publish his theory and converses with some people in America in English. But after that, it is all in Norwegian.
I enjoyed the film a lot (my favorite of the foreign language nominations), but my favorite movie of 2012 was Life of Pi, so maybe I just have a thing for people on small rafts.
Posted by CrumbThumber on February 25th, 2013I must definitely give it a shot for solidarity with my Norwegian brethren.
Posted by Owozifa on February 25th, 2013I love this type of film!
Posted by Loren on February 25th, 2013anyone else read this book in grade school? movie looks intriguing.
Posted by GorgonJones on February 26th, 2013Looks like you were right about the two different versions.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/oscar-nominated-kon-tiki-will-hit-america-in-non-oscar-nominated-english-version.html
Posted by CrumbThumber on March 1st, 2013Leave a Reply