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Dominican Rep. Northfork
- Original title
- Northfork
- Year
- 2003
- Running time
- 94 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Peter Coyote
Anthony Edwards
Daryl Hannah
Kyle MacLachlan
Nick Nolte
James Woods
Mark Polish- Duel Farnes
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Fantasy | Magic Realism
- Synopsis
- In the next two days, the town of Northfork will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a new hydroelectric project. The town's rugged plains are going to drown, its Heartland houses will be swept away and its citizens are heading for higher ground. With the exception of a few stoic resistors. Now a team of six trench-coated men has been charged with removing the last few stragglers before it is too late. As the Evacuation Committee spreads out across Northfork, they encounter a group of people not quite ready or willing to leave. They are each in limbo. Some are looking for a sign. Others are hoping for a miracle. Yet, one way or another, they will all have to say goodbye. Among these tenacious individuals are a lustful young couple, a man who has built an Ark (complete with a pair of wives), and a frail orphan whose fevered visions have led him to believe he's the lost member of an ancient herd of roaming Angels calling him home. Northfork is a beguiling story of loss and resurrection, about adjusting to the strange new places towards which we sometimes find ourselves heading. Blending surreality and history, the film is spun in the manner of an American fairy tale that tackles such themes as land, life, faith, death, the afterlife and the power of dreams with a distinctively playful touch.
Northfork is the latest installment from the Polish Brothers, who previously won acclaim for Twin Falls, Idaho and Jackpot, the first two films in a series about America’s Heartland -- and the country's shifting dreams and visions.-
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- Awards
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2003: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Cinematography
- Critics' reviews
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"A thoroughly original accomplishment of a high artistic order"
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"Love it or hate it, 'Northfork' is a cinematic vision (visually and textually) unlike any with which most moviegoers, even arthouse regulars, will be familiar."
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"So stuck is the movie inside the heads and hearts of its indisputably gifted makers, it never quite makes the leap into ours."
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"With their third film, the Polish brothers find their authorial voice, resulting in a lyrical work whose free-floating Lynchian weirdness coalesces into an unexpectedly touching movie."
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"Mark and Michael Polish have crafted a motion picture that is static, occasionally opaque, and, worst of all, boring."
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