Inuit
Very authentic-seeming film set around the time of the first encounters between native people and Europeans. All characters are Inuit, the arctic landscapes haunting, beautiful, menacing...lighting...interiors mostly by oil lamp...luscious...folk tales abound. This was as realistic an Inuit-set film as has been done.
That said, it had its faults. The pace slowed more and more as it went on...enough that by the end I had lost all interest in the point, if there was one. The song opening and closing the film by the McGonigle sisters was cloying and idiotic and didn't really apply to this film.
As a work of applied anthropology it shone. As a dramatic film...not so much.
5
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