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Map Of The Human Heart on DVD (1993)

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Average rating: 58%
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Starring: Patrick Bergin, Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, John Cusack, Jeanne Moreau, Clotilde Courau, Ben Mendelsohn, Robert Joamie, Annie Galipeau
Director: Vincent Ward
Studio: UCA
Run time: 104 mins
Certificate: 15
User collections: Top Fill My Heart With Joy Movies
Genres: Drama, Romance
Languages: English
Released: 14/07/2008

Brief synopsis of Map Of The Human Heart

Magical adventure story of Avik and Albertine - and a love that survived decades of time, impossible distances and the ravages of war.

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Ward's ambitious epic love story covers two continents and three decades and, its execution apart, could have sprung... Read more on www.timeout.com

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Rated - 5 starsMap Of The Human Heart

A customer from London , 22/07/2005

This is richly textured and evocative film about love, war and the choices people make in order to find a place in the world. Two children meet in a Canadian hospital and fall in love, one an Inuit boy from the Arctic, the other a Native Canadian girl (characters played later on by Jason Scott Lee and Anne Parillaud). The girl chooses to pass as white, and in that choice the conflict begins. Their story takes us to wartime Britain and beyond, and manages to surprise you by taking unexpected directions, and by avoiding a Hollywood ending.

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Rated - 5 starsHeartening

flower from Hove [Highly rated reviewer] , 10/05/2008

I didn't even know this movie was available in Region 2, so I'd better buy it. If you do not buy it, you must certainly rent it. It is a thing to love and cherish. The cinematography is exquisite, with moments of pure, unadulterated beauty. The relationship between the two central characters, from childhood into adulthood and over the years of WWII is nuanced and perfectly judged. What is it about? It's about love transcending all boundaries: cultural, geographical, whatever. It's rare, this great love, but irresistible, perfectly realised in this gorgeous, dream-like film.

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Rated - 3 starsOK but incomprehensible

A customer from North Shields , 26/11/2008

Good actors but the story doesn't quite add up, so don't begin to wonder how someone survives this or that or by coincidence meets a person from the past. Nevertheless a moving and tragic film that feels different from other movies - maybe because the director invested some of his own money in this project.

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Rated - 3 starsOK but incomprehensible

A customer from North Shields , 26/11/2008

Good actors but the story doesn't quite add up, so don't begin to wonder how someone survives this or that or by coincidence meets a person from the past. Nevertheless a moving and tragic film that feels different from other movies - maybe because the director invested some of his own money in this project.

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