Cold Tracks (1962) poster
1962 · drama · war

Cold Tracks

Directed by Arne Skouen1h 36m1962
ElsewhereIMDb6.4134TMDB5.97
  • sombre
  • intense
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Sombre, steady, measured drama / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Guilt and sexual jealousy are the main dynamics behind Skouen's gloomy and intense tale about Oddmund, a former Resistance leader who caused the death of 12 refugees during the war.

Our read · Cold Tracks (1962) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a haunting Norwegian winter drama about war guilt and personal redemption.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 25attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if slow snowy introspection and war trauma will chill your night.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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