Slow paced documentary instead of a real movie

Rating: 1/10 (5 April 2010)

Well, first of all, I would like to tell you that I am really interested in history, especially the North American History. I'm a history and geographic teacher and I'm also learning innu-aimun and watch Inuit movies. When I read about this movie, I was kind of happy because this could have been my kind of film. Well, it wasn't it at all.
The movie shows a lot of beautiful landscapes, offers some interesting costumes and historical stuff. The movie is like a documentary or a walk through a museum. But there is nothing that happens! The development of the story is very slow and there is no point of acceleration anywhere in the movie. There are almost no dialogues, instead of trying to develop the characters or to create an interesting story about a forbidden romance, the director prefers to show us some birds and trees. I don't get any approach to the characters and their story which should be the core of this movie. When I was watching this first I've almost fallen asleep many times, I was wachting the clock like very five minutes, but I'm a tough guy, so I wanted to finish the movie and hoped for an interesting ending, but it was all in vain. It's just a boring documentary without a real story, without interesting acting, without surprising elements in the story... just avoid to watch this! If you like the general topic of the movie, go ahead for "Nouvelle-France" or "The last of the Mohicans", but not for this one...