Some stories are simply unbelievable, and none is quite as confounding as the one dramatized in the 2023 film Society of the Snow. It tells the story of a Uruguayan rugby team that crashes in the Andes Mountains in 1972 during a trip to Chile. The Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash claimed 16 of the 45 lives on board. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible places on Earth, the remaining 29 passengers are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive. Directed by J.A. Bayona, the film was one of the best movies of 2023 and was submitted for two Oscars.
With a 90% critics’ score and 88% audience score on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Society of the Snow received near-unanimous acclaim for its performances and direction. Critics said it brings “masterful technical skill to bear on its tale of real-life tragedy, but none of that spectacle comes at the expense of its simple, powerful message,” while viewers call it “an outstanding recreation of a grueling true story.” Society of the Snow did not win the Best International Feature Film and Best Makeup and Hairstyling awards it was nominated for, but it remains a massive cinematic achievement.
This story of the Andes crash has been explored several times in books and movies, and the 2023 film might be the best. Three years later, Netflix is revisiting the same story in a different way. In a new 3-part documentary titled Beyond the Snow, Bayona and several cast members travel to the crash site, as reality and fiction meet. Additionally, the series tracks fifty years following the tragedy to explore what transpired in the survivors’ lives and those of the relatives who lost their loved ones. Beyond Society hits Netflix on Friday, December 18.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
Who Is Behind ‘Beyond the Snow?’
J.A. Bayona and Carlos Torres created the docuseries, with Torres serving as director. It features testimonies from the survivors of the crash and the families of those who did not return. Additionally, Piers Paul Read, who wrote the 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, and Pablo Verici, who wrote the book Society of the Snow in 2008, will also be interviewed. Actors expected to appear include Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, and Matías Recalt. Bayona said in an official statement that they created the series because they “felt it was the best way to bring a very important chapter of our lives to a close and to thank those who had placed their trust in us to tell their story.”
Stream Beyond the Snow when the series debuts on Netflix on Friday, December 18. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
莱恩·基芬 (Lane Kiffin) 和路易斯安那州立大学 (LSU) 为重返密西西比大学 (Ole Miss) 时的安全问题做好准备别把我和丹·达基奇混淆了 在这一集中的“Don’t Get Me With Dan Dakich”中，当路易斯安那州立大学进入与 Ole Miss 比赛的音墙时，丹打断了喧闹而充满敌意的返校。从路易斯安那州州长杰夫·兰德里到军事预备队，基芬承认，除了足球文化、SEC 之外，他的法律“安全问题”正在等待着他。丹解释了为什么基芬坚持认为他的球员没有什么可担心的，他如何将比赛的所有压力转移给叛军，以及为什么这很容易成为大学橄榄球赛季最令人期待的故事。 到目前为止，你们大多数人都知道本周末在密西西比州牛津举行的路易斯安那州立大学和密西西比大学之间的比赛。 这与其说是一场比赛，不如说是一场全国性的赛事，这是老虎队主教练莱恩·基芬(Lane Kiffin)自让叛军陷入重返巴吞鲁日的困境以来首次返回巴吞鲁日。 各方之间将会存在大量的不和，但这种“联盟”并非完全史无前例。 此页面可能包含合法体育博彩合作伙伴的附属链接。如果您订阅或下注，福克斯新闻可能会获得补偿。此内容由独立于福克斯新闻中心工作的团队创建。 著名的主教练有时会在不太理想的情况下离开球队，而当他们回到他们曾经称之为家的地方时，情况可能会变得有点有毒。 […]
