The 167 minutes go by at reasonable speed after an irrelevant prelude.
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10/04/02
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The Fast Runner (2002)
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Reviews Counted:94
Fresh:85
Rotten:9
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Compelling human drama and stunning cinematography make The Fast Runner an absorbing experience.
Theatrical Release:Jun 7, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $2,603,453
Synopsis: Igloolik, "place of houses," in the eastern arctic wilderness at the dawn of the first millenium. Evil in the form of a mysterious, unknown shaman enters a small community of nomadic Inuit and... [More]
Starring: Natar Ungalaaq, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk
Director: Zacharias Kunuk
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Reviews for The Fast Runner
The mammoth, 172-minute movie has its share of slow passages. It picks up speed, however, as it advances toward a payoff that has much to say about the ultimate besting of evil.
10/03/02
From its mystical-mythical opening to the stunning finale, this is storytelling at its most primal and filmmaking at its most original.
10/03/02
Though some will probably have problems with the film's pacing ... the story holds your interest throughout.
09/06/02
The story is told with such richness and attention to nomadic traditions that it wields the scope of a Kurosawa samurai picture.
08/23/02
The Fast Runner, an epic story coming from northern Canada, provides the perfect antidote to this summer of blockbusters.
08/22/02
Murder, jealousy and infidelity are all part of this tale that proves the elements of a good yarn are the same no matter where you go.
08/17/02
It's a masterpiece.
08/09/02
Compelling as it is exotic, Fast Runner has a plot that rivals Shakespeare for intrigue, treachery and murder.
08/09/02
Top CriticA rare and remarkable portrait of place that could only be told by the people who own the story and had the sense to buy the cameras.
08/02/02
This particular emperor, methinks, is naked.
08/01/02
Zacharias Kunuk and his able team of filmmakers have proven that they know how to make a grand film.
07/30/02
'Director Zacharias Kunuk, for all his careful and leisurely pacing, knows how to drive an image home... '
07/29/02
This is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body, so original is its content, look, and style.
07/28/02
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07/26/02
Like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film.
07/25/02
A gorgeous, engrossing, utterly alien and fresh movie that has the human truth and impact of classic Greek myth and the overwhelming beauty and mastery of the greatest epic films.
07/19/02
Often, the film feels more like a state of mind, combining the factual hardness of a documentary with the startling beauty of a surreal, fantastic dream.
07/19/02
A beautiful, timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy, betrayal, forgiveness and murder.
07/19/02
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