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Movie Info

Eve Eng (Phoebe Jojo Kut) is the 9-year-old daughter of Buddhist Chinese immigrants living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Although Eve has been raised with her family's traditional Chinese beliefs, she begins to doubt that their religion can see her family through a string of misfortunes. Much to the dismay of their traditionally-minded family members, Eve and her equally independent sister, Karena (Hollie Lo), take a new and unusual path: they discover Catholicism.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Julia Kwan
Producer:

Shan Tam, Erik Paulsson, Yves J. Ma
Writer:

Julia Kwan
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 1, 2007
Runtime:

1h 32m
Sound Mix:

Dolby

Cast & Crew

Phoebe Jojo Kut
Eve Eng

Hollie Lo
Karena Eng

Vivian Wu
May Ling Eng

Shirley Ng
Auntie #8

Diane Buermans
Colleen

Jessica Amlee
Sally

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Critic Reviews for Eve & the Fire Horse

All Critics (13) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (3)

At times Eve plays like an unshaped memoir. What makes the film almost satisfying is that [director] Kwan has given us a charming and lovingly realized world. But halfway is still only halfway.

July 6, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately captured childhood.

June 20, 2007 | Full Review…

Ken Eisner
Variety
One of the most enchanting and memorable films made in this country.

January 27, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4

Jennie Punter
Globe and Mail
Eve & the Fire Horse has a kind of poetry that lifts it above the typical drama of immigrant life and gives [Kwan's] characters a lasting poignancy.

September 10, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Susan Walker
Toronto Star
Fire Horse is a nice enough film, but at the risk of being a curmudgeon, I am hard pressed to see what all the fuss is about. In this fashion, it is intensely Canadian, nice without being too much of anything else.

August 24, 2017 | Full Review…

Dorothy Woodend
The Tyee (British Columbia)
The incomplete storylines really do a disservice to Horse's fascinating characters and to those of us watching who feel like part of the family.

September 26, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

David Levine
Filmcritic.com
The script's wry humour and Kwan's sure touch with her cast save it from becoming too sombre or too sentimental. In fact, she's created something rare: a family movie that makes keen observations about family life.

June 20, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Jason Anderson
eye WEEKLY
The beliefs of children are so absolute and pure, from the dreadful feeling that they can be responsible for a death to the joy of believing a statue can come to life at night and goldfish can sing opera.

April 24, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com
A remarkably good-natured and gentle film about spirituality's place in a family's life.

February 3, 2006 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com
An endearing memoir of childhood and of a certain time and place of innocence.

January 27, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
Eve and the Fire Horse is an ambitious feature-length debut from Julie Kwan, which demonstrates her directing skill when it comes to actors.

January 24, 2006 | Rating: 3/5

Michael Ferraro
Film Threat
Kwan has an astonishingly introspective eye for detail, and a nurturing quality.

January 24, 2006 | Rating: A

Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)