Review: With breathtaking cinematography, PBS's 'Wild Scandinavia: Life on the Edge' explores environments including the fiords of Norway and the open sea, as well as the creatures—and people—that inhabit them
Across the evolving landscape of motion-picture technology, a lot of attention gets paid to algorithms, 3D Pandorans andlooking 30 years younger. But there’s a quiet revolution under way in nature cinematography, as evidenced by the kind of startlingly beautiful and intimate imagery that distinguishes “Life on the Edge,” the first chapter in the three-part “Wild Scandinavia.
, the show surveys the sandy flats of southern Denmark, the volcanoes of Iceland, the dense forests of Sweden and, most dramatically in the initial installment, the vast coasts of Norway and its fabled fiords—glacier-sculpted canyons carved in the last ice age and flooded by seawater. While most nature shows concentrate on survival, this one, because it involves humans, also includes death-defying recreation, i.e., base-jumping off the 3,000-foot-high cliffs along the fiords.
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