Adam Blackwood
(voice)
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An English dreamer experiences both the beauty and harshness of nature when he relocates to the Canadian prairie.
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| Homepage | http://www.nfb.ca/film/wild_life |
|---|---|
| Release Date | 2011-02-10 |
| Runtime | 14m |
| Directors | Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby |
| Producers | David Christensen, David Verrall, Marcy Page, Bonnie Thompson |
| Writers | Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby |
I liked the brush-stroke style of animation here as we follow a rather naive young Englishman as he leaves the comforts of his upper-class existence and emigrates to Calgary. Now in 1909, that was little more than an hamlet but he has plenty of (parental) cash, so secures a 90-acre spread equipped with a pond and a shack. He's happy enough - though perhaps not as adventurous as he declares to his folks in his letters. With the harsh winter approaching, though, loneliness begins to set in and then... Simultaneously, we have a sequence of inter titles that describe to us something of the life of a comet. It's time near the brightness of the sun before it's journey takes it beyond the orbit of Pluto. Analogous? The narrative pokes a little fun at all things English (even the Scots get their dig in) and is quite amiable. I've only ever been into the north of Canada once - to a British Army Arctic training facility. The bitter cold and the darkness of the winter months is almost claustrophobic - and that was with double glazing and central heating. Brrr!
— CinemaSerf