Summary
This film by Quebec writer-director Benoît Pilon functions as something of a corrective to [Mordecai Richler]'s worldview. Its modest, soft-spoken hero is Tivii, an Inuk hunter who lives an almost traditional life on Baffin Island with his wife and two daughters.
Because Kaki speaks French, the world opens up to Tivii to a small degree. In particular, his ability to communicate with [Carole] causes first a friendship, then a rift due to a mutual misunderstanding of each other's cultural morals. But Tivii maintains a fatherly relationship with Kaki, to the extent that he offers to adopt the boy and take him back to Baffin Island.See the full content of this document
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Elegant Story of Stranger in Strange Land
IN the early '60s, that cynical Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler published his novel The Incomparable Atuk, a satire abo...
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