A gold plumb line, a floating boat, and the most unhinged family heirloom quest you'll ever witness.
Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland.
Direction
Sentier commits fully to the bit and never blinks
Cinematography
Greenland's desolation becomes a character with commitment issues
Acting
Bernard Giraudeau gives 110% to material that asks for maybe 60
Director
Jean-Pierre Sentier
Philippe Clévenot
Monsieur T'Champ
Charlotte Maury-Sentier
Lucie
Bernard Giraudeau
Jacques Mercier
Jean-Yves Tual
Emile Michel
Paul Crauchet
'Smoking'
Michelle Marquais
Mathilde
Claude Duneton
Monsieur Claudine
Luc-Antoine Diquéro
'Mimosa'
Jean-Paul Bonnaire
'Sémaphore'
François Dyrek
Bear man
Jacques Boudet
Professor
Jean-Marie Cornille
The Marseillais
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1992 French cinema was obsessed with absurdist rural quests; this is the genre's frozen forgotten child.
Charlotte Maury-Sentier is the director's wife, making Lucie either nepotism done weird or weird done nepotistically.
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