The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. It runs long at 2h 52m.
Synopsis
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Metacritic91/100
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
83 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul Apak AngilirqWriter
- Pauloosie QulitalikWriter
- Zacharias KunukWriter
- Herve PaniaqWriter
- Zacharias KunukDirector
- Norman CohnWriter
- Chris CrillyOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Natar UngalaaqAtanarjuat
- Sylvia IvaluAtuat
- Peter-Henry ArnatsiaqOki
- Lucy TulugarjukPuja
- Pakak InnuksukAmaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
- Madeline IvaluPanikpak
- Pauloosie QulitalikQulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
- Eugene IpkarnakSauri, the chief
- Neeve IrngautUluriaq
- Abraham UlayurulukTungajuaq
- Apayata KotierkKumaglak
- Mary QulitalikNiriuniq
Stills
Themes
jealousysibling relationshipinuitnative americanarctic polar circle regionevil spiritrevengedog sledigloobased on myths, legends or folklore