★★★★☆
Men testing themselves in the frozen north — we’ve seen it umpteen times on screen. Yet by its end, this intense two-hander with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders, Gangs of London) has defied the frostbitten clichés and is packing some hard-won emotional oomph.
Co-written by Coster-Waldau (with Joe Derrick) and directed by his fellow Dane, Peter Flinth, the English- language film tells the true story of a Danish expedition to Greenland in 1909. Its aim is to prove that the northeastern part of the region is connected to the rest of the island and therefore not vulnerable to a rival American claim. The mission is led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau), a
