Map of the Human Heart Director: Vincent Ward Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Robert Joamie
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- DVD Release Date: 06/01/2004
- Original Release: 1993
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- Sales Rank: 31,388
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Closed Caption; Deleted scenes: Bunny Ears, Breaking Through the Wall, On the Roof, Sedna's Warning; Spanish subtitles
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Side #1 --
1. Opening Credits: Making Maps [5:54]
2. "Holy Boy" [3:39]
3. Saving Avik [4:53]
4. A Foreign Place [3:52]
5. Bad or Good [7:37]
6. Too Restless [6:51]
7. White Man's Business [9:51]
8. Left Behind [5:46]
9. No Ghost [4:42]
10. A Surprising Reunion [5:31]
11. Avik's Message [4:21]
12. In the Dome [5:56]
13. The Last Mission [4:10]
14. Breaking One's Spirits [3:36]
15. "What Have We Done?" [8:31]
16. Running Out of Words [6:25]
17. The Voyage Home [5:43]
18. End Credits [7:18]
Editorial Reviews
A white, Inuit boy named Avik is the focus of New Zealand director Vincent Ward's meditation on race and romance. In the opening moments of the movie, set in 1931 in the Arctic-Canadian settlement Nunataaq, Avik (portrayed initially by Robert Joamie) lives under the watchful eye of his grandmother (Jayko Pitseolak). While tagging along after British cartographer Walter Russell (Patrick Bergin), Avik falls prey to the "white man's disease,"--tuberculosis; to assuage his own guilt, Russell takes the boy to a Montreal clinic to recover. There, Avik meets Albertine, a mixed-blood Indian girl, and the two fall in love, but their relationship is quickly broken up by the Mother Superior who is in charge of the clinic. Years later, Avik again meets Russell, who this time is on a mission to recover the German U-boat lying wrecked off the coast of Nunataaq. Avik asks for Russell's help in learning the whereabouts of Albertine, and he gives the cartographer a chest X-ray of the girl which he has carried with him since their separation. More time elapses, and Avik (now played by Jason Scott Lee) has become a British bombardier fighting in World War II. He is sought out by Albertine (Anne Parillaud), who has become Russell's mistress. Still, she begins an affair with Avik; Russell soon finds out, and as revenge sends Avik and his crew on a suicide mission of which Avik is the lone survivor. Despondent over his war experiences, Avik flees to Canada, where he becomes an alcoholic; decades later, he is sought out by Rainee (Clotilde Courau), the daughter born from his affair with Albertine. On his way to the girl's wedding, Avik is killed in an accident; his body washes up on the beach at Nunataaq, a wedding gift still clutched in his arms. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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