The film starring a solo and virtually silent performance
by Robert Redford. The film is probably more remarkable for this distinction
than the detailed veracity of the plot. With hardly a word spoken, we follow
for 106 minutes the partly self-induced bad luck of a single-handed yachtsman
in the Indian Ocean. Holed by a stray container and then rolled by a hurricane,
the poor man takes to his liferaft but rather foolishly starts a bonfire in it
with predictable consequences. The ambiguous ending – did he die or was he
finally rescued – seems to have people evenly divided
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