Indigenous crew man on a freighter becomes a murder suspect when the cook, and his lover is murdered on the ship.
This is a glacially paced thriller/character study is set in the frozen north of Canada. It’s a film that is very much part of the slow film movement.
It kills me that I didn’t like this film, because the film looks great, is far from Hollywood in its story and is beautifully acted. It’s a film that at least on paper has all the bells and whistles as being something that I would absolutely fall madly in love with. The trouble is the pacing is deliberate and a great deal isn’t said. Yes there are clues in the silences but not always and I constantly wanted to know more.
While not for me, this is very much a film for the arthouse crowd. (Then again I liked the film enough that I will give the film a shot away from Tribeca where I can truly focus on one film and not worry about the five others playing around it)
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