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NORWAY - REVIEW

Cinema can make you travel just like a book.


And Norway, directed and narrated by Erik Jacobsen is a short documentary that seems a magic postcard capable of transporting you directly on the Hurtigruten line.


The cruise departs from Bergen where a parade in honor of Labor Day prepares us for an immersion in the past, a fascinating journey through time on board one of the most iconic vessels of the world.


In just 18 minutes of documentary, in addition to the majestic landscape, we are able to splendidly admire all the small towns that we find along the coast, villages that seem to have remained crystallized in the past and colored houses that seem to have come out of those Christmas glass balls that we adored as children; accustomed to the city smog, the confusion, the multitude of people crowding the streets every day, it is almost natural to wonder  what it would be like to live in such a fairy-tale place, where life flows peacefully and uncontaminated.

Along the route we can admire all the enchanting variety of landscapes and the hypnotic cold light of the north.


We go from snow-capped peaks, to green hills, from impetuous currents, to the glacial calm of the fjords: everything is simply and majestically wonderful.


The show, however, is not only "visual".


In fact, there is a way to relive ancient traditions and customs: typical viking feasts, dances and songs that act as a suggestive Time Machine.


With this documentary shot with so much passion and attention to details, Erik Jacobsen gives us  not only a film where you can breathe adventure and light-heartedness, but a precious virtual ticket to travel with him.