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...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...
...Even if it is mathematical, he says, passion is still strong enough to give meaning to our lives...
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...
Even if it is mathematical, he says, passion is still strong enough to give meaning to our lives...
Except for its radical fringes, environmentalism moved into the political mainstream, and so did Hayes. By the time he was 35, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to head the Solar Energy Research Institute in Colorado, and clean power became his passion. After finding the time to finish his law degree at Stanford in 1985, Hayes was drawn back onto the environmental front lines by groups looking forward to the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day. The threat of global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels had thrust the environment back into the headlines...