Map of the Human Heart

April. 23,1993      R
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.

Jason Scott Lee as  Avik
Robert Joamie as  Young Avik
Anne Parillaud as  Albertine
Annie Galipeau as  Young Albertine
Patrick Bergin as  Walter Russell
Clotilde Courau as  Rainee
John Cusack as  The Mapmaker
Jeanne Moreau as  Sister Banville
Ben Mendelsohn as  Farmboy
Jerry Snell as  Boleslaw

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Reviews

Hellen
1993/04/23

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Invaderbank
1993/04/24

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Lollivan
1993/04/25

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Leoni Haney
1993/04/26

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

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ferdinand1932
1993/04/27

There is a special category of very bad film that usually originates from a director with a story, that is to say, they have no understanding of narrative and how to build and develop narrative, or simply how to make a story. This film is one of them in that it has absolutely no story to it at all. A series of scenes that evolve to nothing in the first thirty minutes do not make a story.It also lacks plot but that is because it has no story. Now a lack of story is not a problem per se, but to make the piece work one has to be very good in another way, typically stylistically, or with the construction viz. Godard, or Beckett.This film however is pretentious and superficial because it relies on the formulas of gesture and moment. With gesture the director takes a key moment and makes it a metaphor, or rather the pretense of a metaphor, for a deeper significance. It looks good but is empty of real meaning to the overall narrative because the narrative does not exist and so on to a infinite regress.In like manner the use of a moment – a key scene – is used to show some deeper though wholly ridiculous scene to make a magical moment in an otherwise idiotic film. This film has those two tactics in several scenes: the objects thrown on the principal; the hot air balloon scene; the bombing scene is the ultimate and there are two more.A special note has to be made about the variant grammar of the title: dropping the indefinite or defiant article before a noun does not make it memorable or special (a gesture again to draw attention to the title by not using the normal form but still be utterly ignorant about how grammar works) because it defaults to the indefinite article.In all, a vapid and adolescent waste of time and materials; the cost to the inhabitants of the region and to the environment for disturbing the region should be paid back somehow.

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Nat Williams
1993/04/28

This movie, about love lost and found, started out full of promise. An Eskimo village in the Canadian arctic is visited by a British mapmaker in 1931 who befriends an orphaned native, Avik. Avik contracts tuberculosis and the mapmaker flies him to Montreal, where he is raised in a Catholic hospital/school. He heals, learns English and meets a girl who, like him, is a half-breed, and they enjoy an episode of puppy love until she is whisked away. So far, so good. We anticipate the two meeting again. A decade later he ends up as part of an RAF bombing crew in World War II. Coincidentally, the girl is also working for the British military, reading the photographs taken by Avik on his bombing runs. Also, she is involved with the man who rescued young Avik years earlier. This was one of those movies that sent one to the kitchen after the first act to microwave some popcorn and enjoy the rest. Unfortunately, the second half was disappointing. The characters, relationships and situations don't live up to expectations. Much of the cinematography is excellent, and it's not a total waste. But the film could have been so much more.

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tommytune79
1993/04/29

This is a beautiful, thoughtful, heart-wrenching story. The cinematography of the film is artful and intimate, it feels like you are in the room, almost shamefully eavesdropping... the ending doesn't completely gel for me, the story line works, but I think it needs to be fleshed out a bit more. The ensemble performances are letter perfect, the subtleties and inner thoughts of these characters are crystal clear to the viewer, it's almost unnerving. The frantic energy of wartime life is captured beautifully, without being a trite war movie. It's just another layer of these characters reality, it doesn't overwhelm the story. Brandon Lee is beautiful in this role, very impressive performance. Great great story, I loved this movie!!!!

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ebrown2112
1993/04/30

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.

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