Mostly ignoring William Reilly and Claude Kerven’s preposterous, muddled script, Alan Rudolph does the impossible with the material he has been dealt and makes a creepy, giddy, genuinely scary mystery film about two young women, best friends since childhood, who kill each other’s spouse for personal reasons while at the same time enacting the secret […]

Two men operate a meteorological station on an island in the Arctic Ocean: middle-aged Sergei, who knows the ropes; young Pavel, his apprentice, who forgets even to load his shotgun despite the dangers posed by polar bears. While Sergei is temporarily absent fishing for the both of them, Pavel receives a radio message that he […]