Greenland’s icebergs are captured in superb detail in Aquarela Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
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Directed by Victor Kossakovsky
WINTER in southern Siberia. By a long-winded, painstaking method involving levers, ropes and a fair amount of cursing, vehicles that have fallen through the thawing ice of Lake Baikal can be hauled back onto the surface.
The crew working on Aquarela were filming one such operation when an SUV shot past in a shower of ice, then plunged nose-first into the freezing water, killing one of its occupants.
There is nothing exploitative about the footage that, after much soul-searching, Russian…
