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| Native Heart |
Posted - July 29 2002 : 8:51:08 PM
I just saw an incredible movie! Good luck finding it! This movie is written, directed, produced by and stars genuine Inuit people—not our FAVORITE Inuit person, but they couldn’t have cast him. He doesn’t speak the language, and this movie is in the Inuit language with English subtitles. This does NOT detract from the film at all.
Atanarajuat: The Fast Runner is not a Hollywood production. If you want polish and perfect looking human beings go rent Shadow of the Wolf with Lou Diamond Phillips and Jennifer Tilly, but if you want to get a good idea of what it was like to live as Eric Schweig’s ancestors did before the white man came, this movie is it. Bringing to the screen an Inuit legend, this film makes you forget you are watching a movie. It is more like eavesdropping on a whole different world. Stark, frank, and beautiful, it addresses such mundane topics as building igloos, food preparation, and Eskimo family relations in the context of a very human story of love, hate, and revenge.
This is showing in only one theatre here in the whole St. Louis region, and as the Midwest is the last to get everything from films to fads, it may have already come and gone in your area, but If you think it sounds interesting, take a look for it. You might get lucky, and it is worth the 172 minutes you will invest.
Karen’s Rating --- Five stars out of Four
Phil’s Rating ----- Karen, you owe me SOOOO BIG for this!!!
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