Time and Water review â Icelandâs doomed glacier tells its own story of climate disaster | TheBriefWire
Time and Water review â Icelandâs doomed glacier tells its own story of climate disaster
Published 8 June 2026 ¡ entertainment
This study of author Andri SnĂŚr Magnason is somewhat indulgent, with endless musings where piercing climate crisis commentary should be Is Iceland dying? Is the
This study of author Andri SnĂŚr Magnason is somewhat indulgent, with endless musings where piercing climate crisis commentary should be Is Iceland dying? Is the world dying? These would appear to be the very relevant questions behind this well-intentioned but ultimately exasperating and obtuse documentary from Geographic, which is burdened with tasteful NatGeo stateliness and visually pleasing production values.
It is directed by film-maker Sara Dosa, whose earlier documentary Fire of Love was about doomed vulcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who in 1991 perished in the eruption they were studying. Now Dosa has made a study of award-winning Icelandic climate author Andri SnĂŚr Magnason, whose book on climate change Of Time And Water was published in 2019 and who wrote a piercingly sad âobituaryâ of the Ok glacier, the first Icelandic glacier completely to disappear.
It very clearly wonât be the last. Continue reading...
Published: June 8, 2026 ⢠3:30 PM IST ¡ Updated: June 8, 2026 ⢠4:09 PM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
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This study of author Andri SnĂŚr Magnason is somewhat indulgent, with endless musings where piercing climate crisis commentary should be Is Iceland dying?
These would appear to be the very relevant questions behind this well-intentioned but ultimately exasperating and obtuse documentary from Geographic, which is burdened with tasteful NatGeo stateliness and visually pleasing production values.
It is directed by film-maker Sara Dosa, whose earlier documentary Fire of Love was about doomed vulcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who in 1991 perished in the eruption they were studying.
Now Dosa has made a study of award-winning Icelandic climate author Andri SnĂŚr Magnason, whose book on climate change Of Time And Water was published in 2019 and who wrote a piercingly sad âobituaryâ of the Ok glacier, the first Icelandic glacier completely to disappear.
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