A light that will make you light-headed

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2010)

You will find it funny, but in no way deep in any sense. Funny because it makes fun of the immigration service that is picking on silly details in the marriage between an American man and a Canadian woman who is being expelled because of an expired visa. And we are speaking of top executives in a publishing house. It is also funny because most of the film takes place in Alaska and the poor Canadian from Toronto does not exactly know how to react to eagles, waterways, family traditions and some other more exotic traditions. But apart from that it is schmaltzy to the extreme. It's a shame because they had a beautiful subject and the man like the woman, or the boy like the girl were good looking and we could have appreciated a little more skin contact. But it is fun for an evening when nothing is pressing in the oven or the washing machine.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID