
Map of the Human Heart
1993, Romance, 1h 46m
23 Reviews 1,000+ RatingsYou might also like
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Avik
Albertine
Walter Russell
Young Avik
Young Albertine
The Mapmaker
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Critic Reviews for Map of the Human Heart
All Critics (23) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (5)
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This private epic by the New Zealand director Vincent Ward moves across continents, languages, and elements - from pack ice to hellfire and back again.
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Even by Mr. Ward's own high standards in the area of idiosyncrasy, this is a daringly peculiar tale.
May 20, 2003 | Rating: 3/5 -
Despite its historical surrounding and a few stabs at thematic depth, Map of the Human Heart has all the flavor and plot complexity of a Harlequin romance.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
The best movies seem to reinvent themselves as they move along, not drawing from worn-out sources, and Map of the Human Heart is one of the year's best films.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review… -
A film of incantatory intensity and moment by a prodigiously gifted young filmmaker.
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Map of the Human Heart is one of those rare films that illuminates a single human story, and does it so well that you're hardly aware you're watching a movie.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Map of the Human Heart
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Apr 23, 2012Nice. Moving. Touching...even though the style of this movie definitely shows its age. Much has happened in the last 20 yrs to improve productions. To see this movie made again, with todays expertise, would be really fantastic. FYI: John Cusack is in this for less than 5 min...Cynthia S Super Reviewer
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Sep 11, 2010The movie starts off very well with interesting relationships between Inuit, European and other Meso-American peoples and then switches gears into a sweeping romance. Jason Scott Lee really steps up to and fills his role as an Inuit who is drawn into a world he is unfamiliar with. By the time the film gets to WWII it might as well be Pearl Harbor w/ burning models instead of god CGI. As a note Cusack has a 5 Minute role sitting at a table looking at a map listening to Lee retell his storyBill C Super Reviewer
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Jan 29, 2007Average film narrative about an Inuit Eskimo's life and his relationship with a half-breed Indian girl that looks like its epic story.Dean M Super Reviewer
Map of the Human Heart Quotes
Avik: | It's all there in the maps. Sometimes all they tell you is that you're lost. |
Avik: | Why do you want to bomb Dresden? |
Walter Russell: | There's a monster in a room. Once that room was filled with everything that was valuable to him. His train sets, his puppet theatre, his model planes. They're all broken now. All that's left untouched is his beautiful collection of Dresden China. You go into that room, you smash all his crockery, and you have broken his spirit. |
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