Abgerissen (2019)

Abgerissen: Directed by Tigran Sahakyan. With Irina Antonenko, Andrey Nazimov, Denis Kosyakov, Ingrid Olerinskaya. Five young adults, who want to celebrate New Years Eve on top of a mountain, get stuck in a gondola lift. What started out as an adventurous party, soon becomes a fight for survival.

“A teen thriller to enjoy your late Halloween celebrations. What brings genius to the simple plot of friendship and love being celebrated on New Yearu0026#39;s Eve is the length of time the script holds the audienceu0026#39;s attention throughout the entire film with much of it taking place in a gondola.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eCreative dream sequences, aerial cinematography and scenescapes of the Russian mountain ranges are tactfully used to build suspense and propel the story between the friends who inevitably begin turning on one another.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe characters arenu0026#39;t developed enough for us to genuinely connect with them as they slowly begin turning on one another. The rapid descend into madness by some of the characters is a little hard to swallow with extreme measures being taken that barely make sense”