,” which grips with alternating waves of dread, horror and heart-swelling relief, even as it can hardly surprise. Another is the source this time: Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci’s 2009 book of the same title, which was written in collaboration with multiple survivors of the crash and, using their more intimately detailed first-hand accounts, attempts to grant a perspective to both the living and the dead.
Which is not to say that Bayona skimps on the action element: As you would expect from the Spanish director of 2012’s Indian Ocean tsunami drama “The Impossible,” he once again pulls off a rattlingly visceral reconstruction of a real-life catastrophe, pummelling the audience with formal pyrotechnics for throat-grabbing you-are-there effect, before shifting focus to the devastated personal crisis of it all.
But while the film is lustrously shot on location in the Andes and Spain’s Sierra Nevada region — with DP Pedro Luque Briozzo Scu rendering snow and skin alike in varying shades of polar blue, relative to the blazing white of the winter sun — its remaining two hours rest more on Bayona’s aptitude for broadly emotive human storytelling, boosted by a typically maximalist score from Michael Giacchino that throws frantic percussion and a keening choir in alongside the ample strings.
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