{"id":3883,"date":"2014-11-30T22:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2014-11-24T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T22:01:32","slug":"far-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/reviews\/capsule_reviews\/far-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Far North"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3889\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/far_north.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/far_north.jpg\" alt=\"Far North\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/far_north.jpg 1134w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/far_north-66x88.jpg 66w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/far_north-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Far North<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anyone who knows me knows that I&#8217;m a sucker for snowbound films. Anything from <strong>Fargo<\/strong> to <strong>The Thing<\/strong>, heck, even <strong>Snowbeast<\/strong>&#8230; there&#8217;s something about the contrast between the vast arctic blankness and the comparative\u00a0insignificance of the characters that resounds. It&#8217;s the same with deserts, of course, which have a similar unity of form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Far North\u00a0<\/strong>(2007), directed by Asif Kapadia, is another in the recent slew of Arctic films (see also <strong>Whiteout<\/strong>, <strong>20 Days of Night<\/strong>, <strong>The Grey<\/strong> etc etc), and it&#8217;s one of the strangest. A woman and her daughter (Michele Yeoh and Michelle Krusiec) live in complete isolation, shunned by the locals &#8211; who consider her to be a witch &#8211; and constantly on the run from a nameless, genocidal army. Then a stranger (Sean Bean) turns up, near death, and they both fall for him. Things do not end well; in fact they end very, very badly.<\/p>\n<p>The is a slow moving, arty drama which then quite unexpectedly\u00a0features one of the most unpleasant, graphic and disturbing endings I&#8217;ve seen in recent years; a\u00a0transition in mood which makes it something like a cross between <strong>An Essential Killing<\/strong> and <strong>Red, White and Blue<\/strong>. It&#8217;s all highly allegorical, beautifully shot and has a distinct mood to it; but given its very oddness and the slack pacing its not surprising to see why it failed to find an audience. Kapadia directed <strong>The Warrior<\/strong> back in 2001 and this is his last film to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me knows that I&#8217;m a sucker for snowbound films. Anything from Fargo to The Thing, heck, even Snowbeast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1175],"tags":[1180,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}