Map of the Human Heart – Fate, cosmic coincidences, separation, destiny, lots of coincidences, unexpected reunion, and lots more, including the bombing of Dresden and a minor role for John Cusack. But, as Avik tells Albertine, “You make your own luck,” this film makes everything work magically. In 1931 a British mapmaker Walter (Patrick Bergin) takes pity on a young Inuit boy suffering with TB, whose father was Caucasian, and flies him to a sanatorium in Montreal where the boy spends several years, becomes acquainted with a haunting half-breed girl Albertine, and is cured before returning to his Eskimo village.

About ten years after his previous visit, Walter revisits the village and allows Avik (Jason Scott Lee), now a young man, to accompany his team on a trek north to the Arctic edge where Avik learns of the war with Germany. Avik eventually makes his way to England, enlists in the Royal Air Force, rediscovers Albertine (Anne Parilland), and learns much more about the world and himself than his past could have prepared him for. This film soars from the outset; one of the best we’ve seen this year.

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