Eve and the Fire Horse (2005)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Julia Kwan

Writer:

Julia Kwan (written by)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant...

Plot Keywords:

Eve | Firehorse | Horse | Fire | Character Name In Title

Awards:

10 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

Phoebe Kut	...	Eve Eng Kut
Hollie Lo	...	Karena Eng
Vivian Wu	...	May-Lin Eng
Lester Chit-Man Chan	...	Frank
Ping Sun Wong	...	Grandmother
Joseph Siu	...	Uncle #8 (as Joseph Siu Kin Hing)
Shirley Ng	...	Auntie #8
Diane Buermans	...	Cousin Colleen
Franco Maravilla	...	Cousin Edward
Jessica Amlee	...	Sally
Pawan Gill	...	Surinder
Wendy Russell	...	Sister Agnes
Julia Tortolano	...	Becky
Matias Hacker	...	Mr. Right
Chris Shields	...	God's Witness #1 - Fred

Runtime:

Canada:92 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Golden Horse Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the same spot where Ottawa is listed as capital of Ontario, Fredericton is also spelled wrong -- the movie spells it Fredricton.

Soundtrack:

The Red Chamber Dream

nothing else like it out there

The connections people make between each other, and between themselves and whatever "greater power" they're hoping to connect with -- that's the story at the heart of this tale of two young Chinese-American sisters, raised on traditional Buddhist rituals but suddenly determined to become Catholic.

There are so many ways to describe this film: moving, sweet, gentle, elegant, thoughtful, funny. It's a rare pleasure to sit through a movie about religion that doesn't take cheap shots at the believers or the dogma, and that in fact provokes some thought about things you might think you already know. The cinematography is lovely, focusing a good deal on the faces of the young sisters whose relationship is the centerpiece of the film. The actors who play those sisters are affecting -- it's easy to lose yourself in their lives -- in the lives of the entire cast in fact -- because their presence on screen is so natural. For a first-time writer and director, this is a jewel.