An Unknown Compelling Force

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An Unknown Compelling Force

PG-13

2021

1h 46m

Documentary

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Filmmaker Liam Le Guillou examines the mystery surrounding the deaths of nine experienced Russian hikers in the Ural Mountains in 1959.

Chris Barsanti

The Playlist

06/17/2021

C

Not quite ready for prime time.

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Rob Rector

Film Threat

06/17/2021

5/10

While the path to document this tale was no doubt fraught with peril, one wishes that Le Guillou would further remove himself from the proceedings, as An Unknown Compelling Force spends ample time focused on the director.

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Anne Brodie

What She Said

06/11/2021

Just a brutal story and an extremely interesting doc.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

ComicBook.com

06/09/2021

3/5

Serves as a relatively comprehensive primer for the mystery, while also humanizing the victims, though injects unnecessary perspectives the distract from the intended focus.

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Bernadette T

@Odette141 Dec 11

Liam Le Guillou’s An Unknown Compelling Force starts with the promise of shedding new light on the Dyatlov Pass incident, but that promise evaporates pretty quickly. The film leans so heavily on repeating the same fragments of information, as well as the same images, that after a while you begin to wonder whether the repetition is simply padding for runtime. Instead of building momentum, the documentary circles the same points again and again until the entire experience feels oddly hollow. The conclusion lands with a thud, making the journey feel less like an investigation and more like a loop you’ve been stuck in.

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06/29/2021

Film maker Liam Le Guillou does a good job combining different elements of this tragic incident to make the documentary interesting and worth watching. The historical background, the setting, the cinematography and the current analysis by forensic experts all move the film along nicely.

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Liam Le Guillou examines the mystery surrounding the deaths of nine experienced Russian hikers in the Ural Mountains in 1959.

Director: Liam Le Guillou
Producer: Liam Le Guillou
Screenwriter: Liam Le Guillou
Production Co: Second Shot Productions
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 15, 2021
Runtime: 1h 46m

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