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LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE Directed by Julio Medem Starring Najwa Mimri, Fele Martinez Fine Line Features...
...Lovers of the Arctic Circle is not just any love story, though. Otto (Fele Martinez) and Ana (Najwa Nimri), the story's star-crossed protagonists, are step siblings. They meet by chance as children one day after school and there is an immediate attraction. Within a year, Otto's father has left his mother to marry Anas widowed mother. When he reaches puberty, Otto chooses to live with his father so that he and Ana can become lovers. Needless to say, this is a decision that changes Otto's life forever. His mother is crushed by his desertion...
...What saves the movie is the sheer earnestness of everyone involved. Najwa Nimri and Fele Martinez are captivating as Medem's quasi-incestuous lovers. There's both a passion and an intelligence to their personalities that suits the movie well. They seem to be at once constantly contemplating the strange pull of fate that directs their lives and rebelling against it, trying to make room for emotions in the coldly mathematical world that Medem creates. Medem himself as both writer and director shares this passion and intelligence. Lovers of the Arctic Circle could very easily come across as a pretentious...
Lovers of the Arctic Circle is not just any love story, though. Otto (Fele Martinez) and Ana (Najwa Nimri), the story's star-crossed protagonists, are step siblings. They meet by chance as children one day after school and there is an immediate attraction. Within a year, Otto's father has left his mother to marry Anas widowed mother. When he reaches puberty, Otto chooses to live with his father so that he and Ana can become lovers. Needless to say, this is a decision that changes Otto's life forever. His mother is crushed by his desertion...
What saves the movie is the sheer earnestness of everyone involved. Najwa Nimri and Fele Martinez are captivating as Medem's quasi-incestuous lovers. There's both a passion and an intelligence to their personalities that suits the movie well. They seem to be at once constantly contemplating the strange pull of fate that directs their lives and rebelling against it, trying to make room for emotions in the coldly mathematical world that Medem creates. Medem himself as both writer and director shares this passion and intelligence. Lovers of the Arctic Circle could very easily come across as a pretentious...