«Adrift»: the turbulent reconstruction of a nautical drama
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The film opens with the scene that serves as the plot's turning point: that of Tami Oldham's awakening amid the rubble strewn across the now-sunken bottom of the luxury yacht she and her fiancé have agreed to ferry from Tahiti to San Diego. At first, her fiancé seems to have disappeared.
Apart from the white halo formed by the sail around the boat stripped of its two masts and its electrical installations, the calm immensity of an ocean with a steel sheen. This is how director Baltasar Kormákur begins his rather conventional retelling of the maritime drama that, in 1983, saw a young sailing couple, Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp, face a mercilessly violent storm in the middle of the Pacific.
The synopsis is reminiscent of the genre's classics: after an encounter with a
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