On a brighter note, the NZ International Film Festival is underway. We've seen 3, missed 3 that we'd booked for (due to sickness) and have 8 more planned in the next 10 days.
The highlight so far is 'Big River Man' about the Slovenian Martin Strel whose hobby is swimming the length of the worlds longest rivers. This film is about the Amazon swim. Amazingly, Strel is not a super-athlete, but 53, overweight and a heavy drinker. After swimming the Danube, Mississippi and Yangtze, the Nile had been proposed as his next river, but Strel said, "I am not going to do the Nile. It's long but not challenging enough, it is just a small creek. The Amazon is much more mighty."
He barely survived the 66 days, 5000+ km in piranha infested waters. This is the trailer for the film.
Big River Man - Trailer from KNR Productions on Vimeo.
2 comments:
It's too strange that you and another Auckland blogger I've "met" online were at the same movies as me and I didn't know it. It's like I'm being stalked, or am a stalker... Anyway, "Big River Man" was great, although I felt vaguely sad at the end for how Strel ended up I think.
Stalking Haha. Yes, sad I left thinking he'd lost an opportunity to be really famous. I had never heard of him before this film. I also thought he'd probably keep doing swims and eventually kill himself at it.
Am also going to "It might get loud" so I can stalk the other guy if you like :-)
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