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Aro Recommended Big River Man

 

USA 2009, 100 minutes
Dir. John Maringouin
Rating: [M]
Genres: Documentary / Adventure

Topics: Maritime.

 

Aroview: Another in the popular docu-genre of fearless frontierism, Slovenian celebrity figure and swim-a-holic Martin Strel attempts his most ambitious and hazardous feat - to swim the entire length of the Amazon river.

Compounding the against-the-odds factor, Strel is a wine-guzzling 52-year-old with a sizeable girth and a penchant for horse-burgers. Assisted by his son (who narrates) and an American greenhorn as his guide, the three characters head into unchartered waters on a delapidated Peruvian vessel while we wait for things to go badly wrong. Exploring both the psychological and physical terrain of Werner Herzog's work, the film misses that master's courage and intuition, but the venture itself is sensational and docu-worthy, even if Strel himself proves to be an oddly elusive subject.

NZ International Film Festival 2009

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