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Far North (2007)

Director: Asif Kapadia

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From Time Out London

Those hoping to avoid the cold might want to skip director Asif Kapadia’s latest ethnographically interested mini-epic, an adaptation of an Arctic-set story by feminist Sara Maitland. The tundra is as breathtaking as the acting is solid. Michelle Yeoh and Michelle Krusiec, decked out in Inuit chic, are suitably fierce as the cursed and lonely hunter and adopted daughter. They are ever canoeing or sledding together, away from their murderous fellow man, until Sean Bean’s half-dead escapee soldier falls in their path and divides them.
 
It’s strange and eerie – in a bad way. It could be the Middle Ages, except for the radios and listening stations on the horizon. The politics are obscure too, with marauding groups suggestive of a fascist near-future. Themes of survival, savagery, maternalism and rivalry are unresolved. Disappointing.

Author: Wally Hammond 2007-10-10 13:22:10

Time Out London Issue 2000/2001, Dec 18-31, 2008

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  • leah said...
    Posted on Apr 09 2009 19:18 I found the film idea very interesting. Like a Greek tragey. Wherever and whomever we are, our basic instincts remain the same. I liked the ending as it pulled the film together. I didn't like the acting as I felt these two women were sometimes as delicate as an English mum and daughter having tea at the Ritz when in fact, they were eating raw flesh. I liked the silences. Found the harshness of snow, leathers, furs and ice an interesting place to put them. But how the man ever found them or how he was found, seemed implausible. I don't know how they spent the time. I'd like to read it as a short story. If it was taut and the man somewhat less attractive, it would have been more credible.
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Far North

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Director: Asif Kapadia

Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Michelle Krusiec, Sean Bean

Duration: 89 mins


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