5/26/2023 0 Comments The North Water by Ian McGuire![]() ![]() Haigh’s protagonists - Patrick Sumner (Jack O’Connell), ship’s surgeon on the whaler Volunteer, and Henry Drax (Colin Farrell), its master harpoonist - represent civilization and savagery, respectively. It is also, as this sort of adventure tends to be, a parable, with strong family ties to the work of Joseph Conrad and Werner Herzog. Loosely adapted from a celebrated novel of the same name by Ian McGuire, “The North Water” is a 19th-century Arctic adventure, complete with creaking ice, implacable storms, mystical polar bears and seal clubbing. In his intelligent, beautifully filmed mini-series “The North Water” (five episodes, beginning Thursday on AMC+), Haigh takes that idea to new extremes and once again sets out for new narrative territory. If they have a common theme, it’s about people being tested, coming up against their limits. His last three films, all excellent, have been all over the place: a domestic drama with an element of mystery about an aging British couple ( “45 Years”) a rueful gay-friendship tale set in San Francisco ( “Looking: The Movie”) and a heartbreaking, violent coming-of-age story about a boy and a horse in the American West ( “Lean on Pete”). The talented British writer and director Andrew Haigh doesn’t like to be pinned down. ![]()
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