The epic of a man, or two, (and a woman) true to itself.

Rating: 10/10 (1 September 2009)

The tone and the content of this beautiful and profound story is set in a few words by One Stab, the Cree man who conducts in a subtle way the background of the narrative: "He who listens to his inner voices and acts accordingly, is bound to become either a madman or a legend" I would just add "Or both". Everything begins in an idyllic place in a northern corner of Montana which is better connected to the old world through Western Canada. Alas, the seed are already sown in the mind of colonel Ludlaw after what he sees a failure by the central government to provide a solution to the Indian cause. To make it short, in this astonishingly beautiful place he establishes a one family state not free at all from its own internal struggles beginning with the missus leaving for town on the basis of extremely cold winters, and we can give her that, but probably a bit more out of boredom in an environment too basic for any complex soul.