Anthony Edwards, Ben Foster, Claire Forlani
In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a comatose eight-year-old who lies near death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced ev...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 30, 2003
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Flixster Reviews (239)
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July 15, 2008Enjoyed the stark Montana backdrops and some creative set elements, but couldn't find much else to recommend in this surreal tale. thumbs down.
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August 25, 2007One of the most visually beautiful movies I have ever seen. The cast could not have been better selected. The Polish brothers (Michael & Mark) have written the gem of the century with Northfork. The movie is filled with symbolism and some of the most delightful dialogue ever f...( read more)
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August 25, 2007Set in 1955, this is the story of the residents of the small town of Northfork, Montana and their surrounding neighbors, who are being re-located to make way for the lake which will power a new hydro-electric dam. It's also the story of a sickly, orphan boy, named Irwin and the p...( read more)
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May 3, 2007Surreal, haunting, ingenious, uneven. This is as much a personal work of art as the Polish brothers' debut film, Twin Falls Idaho, was.
With a fantastic cast, amazing setting and a strong visual sense, the film is almost the exact opposite of TFI. If that one was an intimate ...( read more) -
April 1, 2009thought I would like this based on some of my friends reviews, however, I found this to be totally dull and lifeless. big thumbs down!
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December 16, 2008A film of both stark and lush beauty, though the starkness remains mostly on the surface, and the lushness prevails in the depth of its character and meaning as both the town's residents, and the town itself, are drawn through matters of life and death, faith and hope, loss and r...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
July 22, 2003
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
July 22, 2003
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
You may resist Northfork, but I doubt you'll be able to forget it. full review
July 19, 2003
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Northfork just about gets us off the ground on its dreamy, feathery angel wings; it just doesn't have the strength or the stamina to keep us aloft. full review
July 11, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is visionary and elegiac, more a fable than a story, and frame by frame, it looks like a portfolio of spaces so wide, so open, that men must wonder if they have a role beneath such indiffere... full review
July 10, 2003
Claudia Puig, USA Today
The cinematic equivalent of an elaborate and poetically constructed non sequitur. full review
July 10, 2003
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
At a moment when so many films strive to be obvious and interchangeable as possible, it is gratifying to find one that is puzzling, subtle and handmade. full review
June 12, 2003
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
A Dali-esque dreamscape where visual inventiveness and narrative incoherence combine to form a result that's both entrancing and sleep-inducing. full review
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