Adrift Movie Download

8 / 10

Photography is stunning
Never mind that Adrift shows the human ability to survive the most harshest and frightening elements that this earth has to offer. It’s the photography that I really appreciated in this story of a couple’s effort to brave the ordeal of being thrashed around in the Pacific Ocean during a Category 4 typhoon.

Right from the opening sequence, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur has his cinematographer Robert Richardson photograph a long tracking shot of Shailene Woodley splashing about in the cabin of a waterlogged sailboat looking for her fiancee and trying to get her bearings. As she emerges from down below, Richardson continues the shot with an invisible wipe of an ocean wave above the boat before Woodley realizes her boyfriend is missing. The breathtaking sequence sets the pace for what is an amazingly rich tapestry of photographic wonders.

One other particularly unusual shot is when Ms. Woodley dives into a river from a cliff while her boyfriend Sam Claflin is concerned about her well-being when she doesn’t come out of the water. Richardson’s camera parallels him as he leaps from the cliff, following him into the water and continuing underneath the water’s surface until he finds Woodley alive.

Those two shots alone are worth the price of admission. Never mind that the story is riveting, despite some sequences where landlubbers would consider slow at times. Otherwise, Adrift should get at least an Academy Award nomination for cinematography–it is that good.Read More