To all the critics who say that Albania isn't that remote and that they've been there on their bus to go skiing, let me tell you: the places haven't really been discovered until an American has been there with a film crew. I've also had the feeling at one time or another that if a rowhouse-dwelling fun skier like me has ever been there, it can't be very far from the Far Out. Whether it's Girdwood in AK or the Italian Eastern Alps, there are places that are much whiter patches on the map than the locations in this TGR flick.
The movie is essentially built around the big TGR Albania trip, which serves as a far-out bracket that holds the movie together. The first sequences and film segments are aesthetically unusual. The dream-like sequences in the intro and the first film segments as well as the partly psychedelic music stand out pleasantly from other ski film intros. There is something stylistically daring here and the eye is not bored.
