The director and screenwriter Cortney Hunt, in his first film, he manages a budget risbile to create a great little film. The film has received, in fact, two Oscar nominations in addition to having won numerous other awards. The story is set on the border between Canada and the United States. A woman, played by Melissa Leo in an extraordinary manner, after being abandoned by her husband, she finds herself in financial difficulties. The money he desperately needs for himself and his two sons, found them entering the illegal trafficking of people, after meeting a girl Indian reservation. Decides, in fact, to carry across the border to immigrants who arrived in Canada, want to enter the United States hoping to find a better life than that which they fled.
Melissa Leo
The river ice is not only the border between two states, but becomes the metaphor of an element that divides people, as well as the two protagonists are divided from the beginning their ethnicity. Cross that river becomes the only way to survive is for the two women for those illegal immigrants who escape poverty. Besides the ever present and pressing issue immigration, on which the film does not take a position but merely to show the sad state, are joined with other issues like the family that knows no difference "race" and friendship that sometimes, as in this case can unexpectedly arise between two people who initially seem to have little in common but the desire to fight the loneliness and the difficulties of life can join in a special bond.
Melissa Leo and Misty Upham
In outlining its protagonists, two strong, courageous women, who struggle to assert their rights, the director chooses the cold and a bit 'bleak scenario of the border north. Landscapes, beautiful even if ice and deserts, are the backdrop to the story but at the same time distinguishing trait to serve the story, making it the tragic dimension of survival obtained by the exploitation of other human beings. Usually we used to see stories of immigration from Sicily or on the border with Mexico, or if we think of our country, flows come mostly from the south of the Mediterranean. The idea of \u200b\u200bmoving the story in a frozen region is, therefore, quite innovative.
short, a gem of independent cinema that shows how, when the idea is good and there are enough good actors too little money to make a good film.
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