Lions Gate Films
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Lions Gate Films
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Lions Gate Films
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
- 3/24/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lions Gate Films
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
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