Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jason Scott Lee | ... | Avik | |
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Robert Joamie | ... | Young Avik |
Anne Parillaud | ... | Albertine | |
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Annie Galipeau | ... | Young Albertine |
Patrick Bergin | ... | Walter Russell | |
Clotilde Courau | ... | Rainee | |
John Cusack | ... | The Mapmaker | |
Jeanne Moreau | ... | Sister Banville | |
Ben Mendelsohn | ... | Farmboy | |
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Jerry Snell | ... | Boleslaw |
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Jayko Pitseolak | ... | Avik's Grandmother |
Matt Holland | ... | Flight Navigator | |
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Rebecca Vevee | ... | Inuit Cook |
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Josape Kopalee | ... | Inuit Elder |
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Reepah Arreak | ... | Avik's Girlfriend |
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap. Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
This is an engrossing love story and adventure, told in flashback. The film does not resort to lurid melodrama, to recycled storylines, but seems to grow organically and unpredictably. The imagery of the film resonates long afterwards. We experience the horrors of war and the exhilaration of reunited lovers, and the film's final scene is truly haunting and heartbreaking. A remarkable achievement.