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Northfork is a 2003 fantasy drama film directed by Michael Polish and written by Michael and Mark Polish. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2003 and later received a limited release in the United States on July 11, 2003. The film stars Duel Farnes, James Woods, Nick Nolte, Michele Hicks, Daryl Hannah, Anthony Edwards, Robin Sachs, Ben Foster, Claire Forlani, Clark Gregg, Kyle MacLachlan and Peter Coyote. This is the brothers' third film collaboration, after Twin Falls Idaho (1999) and Jackpot (2001).




Plot


The film's narrative consists of several interwoven subplots taking place in the town of Northfork, Montana circa 1955. A new dam is being built that will flood the valley of Northfork, and the town is in the midst of an evacuation. The narratives focus on several individuals who, for one reason or another, have yet to evacuate.
Walter O'Brien and his son are on the evacuation team, helping to evacuate the last few inhabitants of Northfork. In return, the government will give them acres of lakeside property if they meet their evacuee quota. Father Harlan is one such individual, who has stayed behind to care for Irwin, a dying orphan too weak to leave town.
While the O'Briens and their co-workers encounter an array of unusual characters, Irwin discovers that he is the "unknown angel" through a suitcase with his angel wings in it and a Bible with an angel's feather telling his family story. He finds himself, in his dreams, a family of angels, with whom he makes a deal to take him a thousand miles away.




Cast






Production


The script for the film was the first screenplay written by the Polish brothers. The brothers, who grew up in California but spent time on relatives' ranches in Montana, based their script on people and places they had known in their youth.
The film was shot in 24 days. Montana locations included Fort Peck, Choteau, Great Falls, Fort Peck Dam, and Augusta. The film was shot in CinemaScope.




Reception


Northfork received mixed to positive reviews from critics and has a rating of 57% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 103 reviews with an average rating of 6 out of 10. The consensus states "Visually poetic, but may be too dramatically inert for some." The film also has a score of 64 on Metacritic based on 31 reviews.
Roger Ebert awarded the film 4 out of 4 stars and screened it as part of his Ebertfest festival. Ebert wrote, "There has never been a movie quite like 'Northfork,' but if you wanted to put it on a list, you would also include 'Days of Heaven' and 'Wings of Desire.' It has the desolate open spaces of the first, the angels of the second, and the feeling in both of deep sadness and pity. The movie is visionary and elegiac, more a fable than a story, and frame by frame, it looks like a portfolio of spaces so wide, so open, that men must wonder if they have a role beneath such indifferent skies."
A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, "Like another pair of filmmaking brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, Mark and Michael Polish have a taste for odd, half-buried Americana. But their quiet, almost morose sensibility is miles away from the Coens' antic whimsy. At times their slow, deadpan style may remind you of David Lynch, but without the unnerving psychological subtext, the undercurrents of dread, sex and mayhem, that lurk below the surface of Mr. Lynch's pictures." Scott likened the Polish brothers' sensibilities as closer to Wim Wenders.
Patrick Z. McGavin of IndieWire wrote that though the film is underdeveloped narratively, its strength is in its cinematography: "Mullen’s crisp, widescreen frame conjures up a magnificent world of verdant plains and ravishing horizontal lines. His graceful camera hovers and floats around the movie’s ineffable subject, the possessive urge for independence and freedom in violent opposition with the need for community and social innovation." He concluded, "The command and assurance of the Polish brothers is impressive, and this insinuating, fascinating movie has a magnetic, eerie pull."




Accolades


Athens International Film Festival
Winner, City of Athens Award: Michael Polish
Chlotrudis Awards
Nominee, Best Cinematography: M. David Mullen
Deauville Film Festival
Nominee, Grand Special Prize: Michael Polish
Independent Spirit Awards
Nominee, Best Cinematography: M. David Mullen
Oldenburg Film Festival
Winner, German Independence Award Audience Award: Michael Polish




References






External links


Official website
Northfork at IMDb
Northfork at Rotten Tomatoes
Northfork at AllMovie
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North Fork most commonly refers to the peninsula at the east end of the North Shore of Long Island.
North Fork may also refer to:




Communities


North Fork, Alberta, Canada




= United States

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North Fork, California, a town in Madera County
North Fork, California, the former name of Korbel, Humboldt County, California
North Fork, California, the former name of Seneca, California
North Fork Township, Stearns County, Minnesota
North Fork, Missouri, an unincorporated community
North Fork, Nevada, an unincorporated community in Elko County
Eden, Utah, also known as North Fork
Northfork, West Virginia




Tributaries


North Fork River (Missouri–Arkansas), a tributary of the White River
North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River, a tributary of the Brazos River in Texas
North Fork Flathead River, a tributary of the Flathead River in Montana, which delineates the western border of Glacier National Park
North Fork Gunnison River, a tributary of the Gunnison River in Colorado
North Fork Creek, a tributary of Redbank Creek in Pennsylvania
North Fork Red River, a tributary of the Red River of the South
North Fork (Aarons Creek tributary), a stream in Halifax County, Virginia
North Fork Skykomish River, a tributary of the Snoqualmie River in Washington state
North Fork Popo Agie River, a tributary of the Wind River in Wyoming




Other


Northfork, a 2003 film




See also


All pages with titles beginning with North Fork
North Fork Dam (disambiguation)
North Fork River (disambiguation)
North Forks, New Brunswick, a community in Canada

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