Escape from the ice
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Escape from the ice |
| Original title | Map of the Human Heart |
| Country of production | Australia , Canada , France , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vincent Ward |
| script |
Louis Nowra , Vincent Ward (Story) |
| production |
Tim Bevan , Vincent Ward |
| music | Gabriel Yared |
| camera | Eduardo Serra |
| cut |
John Scott , Frans Vandenburg |
| occupation | |
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Escape from the ice ( Map of the Human Heart ) is an epic romance of the New Zealand director Vincent Ward with Anne Parillaud and Jason Scott Lee in the lead roles. The film was made in 1992 as an international co-production with music by Gabriel Yared and a camera work by Eduardo Serra .
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In 1965 in an oil production area in the Canadian Arctic, an Eskimo drunk named Avik told a young cartographer the story of his surprisingly eventful life for a bottle of whiskey.
Little half- Inuk Avik lives in the settlement of Nunataaq in 1931 with his grandmother. The polluted, curious whirlwind laughs a lot and is innocence itself. As he is jumping out of animal skins on the trampoline , the British cartographer Walter Russell flies in with the double-decker. Avik immediately admires the different, friendly man and his air machine. Walter lets him look through the sextant . The child is coughing up blood because of the white man's disease, tuberculosis . Walter flies him to a Catholic hospital in Montreal. Avik always turns his phrase “Holy Cow” into a “Holy Boy”. The bird's eye view and then the lights of Montreal are beyond imagination for Avik.
He was scared to death for the first few days in the clinic. He learns English quickly. The cheeky Avik is shorn, indoctrinated and disciplined as a "Protestant". Then the funny Métis orphan Albertine will bewitch him in no time. The two of them sing, play under a blanket, dazzle themselves with mirrors or suddenly juggle because Eskimos and Indians hate each other (which ends in fits of laughter). Compared to the pretty, slender girl who desires nothing more than a horse, he looks like a little Neanderthal. The nasty Matron Banville separates the two children forever, and Avik steals an X-ray of Albertine as a souvenir. Avik gets a plaster cast. Then he has to go back to his settlement.
Walter comes back to the colony in 1941, who is supposed to locate a wrecked German submarine under the utmost secrecy. Avik sneaks after the friend, there they only come across ice and water corpses. Avik asks for help locating Albertine. He gives him the X-ray photo of her chest, which he kept in a safe place. Albertine has become a singer and can now be heard on the radio. Avik soon leaves the tribe, who blames him for the lack of hunted booty because he has been unlucky since he was gone. Avik's grandmother drowned herself. During the crossing to the south, an Inuit passenger asked him that no one would ever return from this ship .
In 1944 during World War II , Avik is a successful pilot of an Avro Lancaster in London . Surprisingly, fate reunites him with Albertine, who is in a uniform and has become a truly beautiful woman. In his cockpit he beams at Albertine in disbelief like a honey cake horse. At Bomber Command she evaluates aerial photos, including those of the “Holy Boy” aircraft. And she is the mistress of Walter, who is also in London and holds a high post. They meet at a ball. When Avik's photographs are in the mail, she knows every time that he survived the mission unscathed. He sends her messages via recordings and coordinates . The lovers meet barefoot in the glass dome high above the Royal Albert Hall . This serves as a reference point for the German pilots and is relatively safe from bombs. Avik and Albertine have a picnic at a barrier balloon and sleep together on it. The aircraft crew learns that their missions will be extended. Walter gives his lover a horse.
Walter instructs him in an office of the staff: "Women are cards, Avik" and speaks of a childhood sweetheart that once broke his heart in Germany, of psychological warfare and of Albertine in quick succession. Meanwhile, Avik looks around his office and sees a grotesque mannequin clad with cards in a closet. Walter cannot or does not want to help him: it goes to Dresden . Avik's lucky streak is over. The "Holy Boy" is hit over the sea of flames and crashes. All of his comrades are dead. Avik parachutes himself into free fall. In the unimaginable firestorm, people are sucked up into the air by the negative pressure and hold onto lanterns as they fly. Others choke on the street. Avik survived the inferno. Albertine's X-ray has melted.
As an eyewitness to the “cannibalism” of whites, he goes back to the Arctic. Albertine, decayed by civilization, did not follow him because, in his words, she “couldn't live barefoot anyway”.
The morning dawned in 1965 when he finished his report. He meets a beautiful young woman in a bar who is looking for her father: Rainee. It turns out that she is their daughter. Drunk he races south to Albertine on his snowmobile. He had an accident on a drifting ice floe. Paralyzed on his back, icy, then weightless in the salt water, he watches his life pass in review: he and Albertine rise in a balloon into the sun, as little Albertine takes off with the mirror, and Avik as a child on the trampoline.
Reviews
With the votes of 1248 viewers, Escape from the Ice is on September 19, 2008 in the IMDb with 7.1 out of 10 points and with 81 percent of 21 evaluated reviews on Rotten Tomatoes .
“An effort that is as complex as it is sensitive to project the Eskimo's imagination, memories and mythical visions onto his new reality by means of dream-like, poetic images. Consistently subjective in his point of view [...] without losing sight of the issue of strangeness and alienation. "
"One of the few modern films that can be called magical to the best of your knowledge and belief"
"A private epic [... with] a climax on the top of a barrier balloon [...] so extravagant that you almost want to laugh"
" Escape from the ice should have been a masterpiece to succeed."
"One of the most horrific war sequences that have ever been photographed [...] one of the rare films that illuminate the story of a single person, and so well that you can barely notice that you are in the cinema."
"A love story, a war story, the story of a life"
Awards and nominations
Australian Film Institute 1993
- Young Actor's Award for Robert Joamie (film)
- Nominated AFI Award in the category Best Achievement in Cinematography for Eduardo Serra
- AFI Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Editing for John Scott and George Akers
- Nomination AFI Award in the category Best Achievement in Sound for Andrew Plain and Gethin Creagh
- AFI Award nomination in the Best Director category for Vincent Ward
- AFI Award nomination in the Best Film category for Tim Bevan, Vincent Ward and Timothy White
- Nomination AFI Award in the category Best Original Music Score for Gabriel Yared
Tokyo International Film Festival 1993
- Best Artistic Contribution Award for Vincent Ward (pro rata)
- special mention to Robert Joamie and Anne Parillaud
literature
- Lynette Read: Vincent Ward: The Emergence of an Aesthetic. PhD thesis . University of Auckland, Auckland 2004 ( itss.auckland.ac.nz PhD Thesis ( Memento of October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )).
Web links
- Escape from the ice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Escape from the ice at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Hal Hinson: 'Map of the Human Heart' (PG-13) in Washington Post (English)
- TV Guide: Map of the Human Heart (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Read, p. 263.
- ^ Escape from the Ice in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ A-LO'T: Map of the Human Heart. In: Entertainment Weekly. September 10, 1993, accessed on September 20, 2008 : "One of the few modern films that can, in all conscience, be called magical"
- ^ Anthony Lane : Map of the Human Heart. (No longer available online.) In: The New Yorker . May 17, 1993, archived from the original on July 16, 2008 ; accessed on September 20, 2008 (English): "A private epic [...] climax on top of a wartime barrage balloon [...] so extravagant you almost want to laugh" Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Read, p. 270.
- ^ Marc Savlov: Map of the Human Heart. In: Austin Chronicle. May 14, 1993, accessed on September 19, 2008 (English): “one of the most harrowing war sequences ever filmed […] one of those rare films that illuminates a single human story, and does it so well that you're hardly aware you're watching a movie "
- ^ Roger Ebert : Map Of The Human Heart (R). In: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/ . May 14, 1993, accessed on September 19, 2008 (English): "It is a love story, a war story, a lifetime story"
