From: nospam@gmx.at   
      
   Dave,   
      
   a short introduction to the movie...:   
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   The first feature made by a Native American crew and creative team, the film   
   concerns two young Idaho men with radically different memories of one Arnold   
   Joseph (Gary Farmer), a former resident of the reservation who split years   
   before and has just died in Phoenix. Arnold's strapping, popular son, Victor   
   (Adam Beach), remembers him best as an alcoholic, occasionally abusive   
   father who drove off one day and never came back. By contrast, Thomas   
   Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams), whom Arnold had saved from certain death years   
   earlier, has chosen to exaggerate the man's life and deeds in a mythmaking   
   fashion that drives Victor crazy. Circumstances bring the two together,   
   however, in a bus ride to retrieve Arnold's ashes. There, in Phoenix, a   
   confrontation with the reality of the dead man's fullest legacy has a   
   profound effect on both characters. Alexie, who wrote the script and was   
   personally involved in all aspects of the production, and first-time   
   director Chris Eyre are so polished in their approach that you can barely   
   feel the cinematic engine at work here. This is the kind of movie in which   
   the characters seem to be driving everything forward, a captivating and   
   pleasant experience that gets a little too tidy at the end (can we call a   
   moratorium on scenes of human ashes lovingly disposed to the winds?), but   
   which is undeniably moving. The cast, including Irene Bedard (the voice of   
   and physical inspiration for Disney's Pocahontas) is outstanding.   
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   have a nice day,   
   Caroline   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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