Robert Bachmann

To say it straight away: In my eyes, Before Blank is the best ski movie of the 18/19 season. It's been said. If you like, you can stop reading now and watch it on YouTube right now. If you want to know why I think that, you can follow my further comments.

First things first: I find it difficult to write this review. That's not because I don't have an opinion on the movie. It's mainly because I did watch the movie, but nothing really stuck with me. Powder here, powder there, bad conditions in South America, seals, Chamonix, Johnny Collinson.

Matchstick Productions, responsible for films such as Claim? and Days of My Youth,?? are taking a different approach with this year's Ruin and Rose. With Ben Sturgulewski, previously with Sweetgrass, a producer known for more thoughtful ski films takes the helm. With MSP, he continues his style and mixes the ski action with a post-apocalyptic desert story, which is given as much space as the ski scenes. PGler Brecher has a clear opinion on this.