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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404923034
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404923039
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: COLD00235D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 172 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2001

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/11/2003 Run time: 161 minutes Rating: R

Amazon.com:
The Fast Runner turns the frozen landscape of northern Canada into the stage for an adventure as sweeping as The Odyssey or Beowulf. Adapted from an Inuit legend, The Fast Runner centers on Atanarjuat, a charismatic young hunter struggling for the affections of Atuat, who has already been promised to Oki, the son of the camp's leader. When Atuat chooses Atanarjuat, Oki seems to accept it, but later events turn his anger and hatred into a murderous spite. This story, as passionate and primal as any film noir, is framed by the daily lives of the Inuit--a struggle for survival that is both simple and vivid, foreign yet immediately understandable. No one in the cast is a professional actor, but the performances are direct and compelling, telling a story that is both epic and intimate. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- good
this movie was kind of slow paced, but once you kind of set yourself to that pace, it was pretty good. i think at one point they said the story is pretty universal among the inuit, in the credits or the 'how it was made' part. it's basically about this guy named atanarjuat, the fast runner, and it takes us through his life. the way it's told, now that i look back on it, has many of the same aspects as some of the less fantastical legends i've heard. the plot had a kind of 'epic' feel to it i guess. ... Read More

Rating:

- Not good
The film is so bad on so many scores I can only surmise that a PC need to be kind to the culture of Eskimos is behind the lavishment of praise. This Canadian film won all its country's honors? Let's not forget that Canada does not call its aboriginal peoples American (Canadian) Indians or Native Americans (Canadians), rather the PC numbingly (& ultimately meaningless) First Nations; although the increasing evidence that these `First Nations' actually conquered & slaughtered the actual 1st Americans ... Read More

Rating:

- The sublime North
Forget its awards and honours, the Camera d'or from Cannes and that raft of Genies and a bagful of other festival citations. For now, there are only three things you need to know about Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner: (1) It is a superb film; (2) It is both intriguingly exotic and uniquely Canadian; (3) Although based on an ancient myth, and set on a distant shore a thousand years ago, it speaks eloquent volumes about the way we live now. The abiding myths are like that, of course, but few movies have managed ... Read More

Rating:

- Typical movie plot, but set in the frozen north
I admit that do not know for sure, but I do suspect that believing that this movie accurately reflects Inuit life would be like believing that soap operas and murder mysteries accurately reflect life in the U.S. I can understand why one reviewer said that the movie is an insult to Native Americans.

Rating:

- Fascinating and thrilling
This extraordinary movie shows us a world that most of us have never seen before--the frozen North where the Inuit struggle with the elements. It is dense with anthropological detail that teaches us as much about their lifestyle as any documentary, but instead it is embedded in a plot filled with jealousy, betrayal, and murder. The story comes from an ancient legend of two men who desired the same woman and the terrible consequences that ensued. It is simply fascinating from beginning to end.

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