“There is no filmed evidence of the latter part of the adventure or at least of the four attempts made by Captain Shackleton (Shackleton had navigated 800 miles in his precarious boat to the coast of the uninhabited South Georgia) to save the men stranded on the Island of Elephants. At this point, Hurley prefers to get lost in ethological, pre-Disney descriptions with marine elephants who scratch their stomachs and penguins captured in their most Chaplinesque position. Is it effectively the absence of the most hazardous moments of the action, or is it also the desire to construct a story which leaves behind an eligiac, reassuring and domestic impression? Comprehensively documented, and dutifully triumphalistic, it marks the return of the explorers of civility (in the port of Valparaiso), to the chant of All saved, all well”. (Paola Cristalli)