
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Washington PostHal HinsonA marvelous breakthrough, a film of incantatory intensity and moment by a prodigiously gifted young filmmaker. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaVisually stunning and emotionally powerful... a buried treasure. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallWard's "Map" is a wildly ambitious film and, often, a wildly beautiful one--and if it isn't quite a masterpiece, if we sense that Ward's resources aren't enough for the World War II London scenes, in the end, any flaws or lapses simply may not matter. Movies, especially ones with a broad epic canvas and international logistics, don't often get this intimate. They don't give you such a sense of nerves stripped raw, joy or misery nakedly expressed. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOne of the best qualities of Map of the Human Heart was that I never quite knew where it was going. It is a love story, a war story, a lifetime story, but it manages to traverse all of that familiar terrain without doing the anticipated. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarSpanning three decades, Map of the Human Heart is one of those rare films that illuminates a single human story, and does it so well that you're hardly aware you're watching a movie. |
| Time OutJanet MaslinFar more memorable for the spectacular wildness of its Arctic and Dresden scenes (as photographed by Eduardo Serra) than for its uneven efforts to bind such images together. |
| Independent on SundayQuentin CurtisNew Zealander Vincent Ward's Map of the Human Heart spans half the century and most of the world, from 1931 to 1966, the Arctic to England, telling an unlikely story with visionary verve. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatSucceeds admirably in showing us just how much love the heart can hold in the face of so many obstacles and so much pain. |
| Chicago TribuneJohanna SteinmetzWard's ambitions for this project far outstripped the intentions and capacities of its screenplay. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordScott Lee gives a surprisingly strong performance as the Inuit who falls in unrequited love with Albertine. If you can overcome the almost-too-coincidental fact that they are assigned to the same Air base several years later allowing them to be together again then this pleasing romantic drama could just be for you. |