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What does a human being need to live?
The film uses the 1950s-era tuberculosis epidemic in the Far North as its starting point. The spread of the disease forced many Inuit to go to various Canadian cities for treatment. Tivii is taken to a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones and faced with a completely alien world, he finds himself unable to communicate with anyone.
When his nurse, Carole (Éveline Gélinas) realizes that Tivii’s illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being, she arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience of both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his family.
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Suprisingly good Canadian Drama, Feb 15 2011
By Nicholas Grey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ce Qu'il Faut Pour Vivre (The Necessities Of Life) (DVD)
Seldom seen film that I caught on either IFC or Sundance channel. Story takes place in the 50's and is about an Inuit Canadian that must leave his family in the frozen north where he lives to receive extensive treatment for tuberculosis. Core of the film shows how the Inuit man struggles with his health, his inability to communicate, immersion into a completely foreign environment, and long term separation from the family for which he is the sole provider for. This film is surprisingly powerful and really creates a lot of strong emotions in the viewer. Slow paced but excellent nonetheless. Beautiful landscapes, great acting, interesting characters, and a compelling story make this movie a hidden gem.
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A film that celebrates Diversity, Aug 31 2011
By Robert D. Askren "Robert D. Askren,Ph.D." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ce Qu'il Faut Pour Vivre (The Necessities Of Life) (DVD)
I watched this sensitive film about an Alaskan Inuit Indian who must leave his family and culture in order to seek medical treatment in a French hospital in Canada. A thoughtful hospital staff bring an orphan Inuit boy to the hospital for medical treatment. He also has T.B. but is dying. The protagonist in this film wants to adopt the boy and take him home with him after he is cured. Our protagonist is cured, so is ready to return to his home, but assures the boy he will come back for him. He tells the boy an Inuit fable about a woman married to an invisible Inuit husband. She loves him and wants to see what he looks like. This is impossible as long as the man is living.He is such a good husband and provides for his wife very well. She is overcome with longing to see him, so she stabs him while he is sleeping. As the man is dying, his wife sees how handsome he is, but it is too late.
She has killed the one she has cared the most for. Our protagonist tells this story to explain how he feels as an invisible native American in a different culture. The hospital is killing his Inuit spirit and culture because the staff do not really understand him or the boy.
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The necessities of life are fish, seal, caribou and geese., May 18 2012
By E. Hernandez - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ce Qu'il Faut Pour Vivre (The Necessities Of Life) (DVD)
THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE - CE QU IL FAUT POUR VIVRE (dir. Benoît Pilon, 2008, released 2010 in Belgium, in French and Inuit, 105 minutes) is a wonderful, meditative film that I only just saw today. It tells the story of Tiivii the Hunter (the handsome, stunning Natar Ungalaq), an Inuk (Inuit Eskimo) who contracts TB. He lands in a French-Canadian sanitarium where, as he says, he feels more lost among all the whites than he feels when he is alone in the wilderness.The kind nurse who tends him (Eveline Gelinas) hits upon a wonderful strategy when she realises Tiivii is giving up the will to live. She sends for a young Inuit boy with TB, recuperating in another place, and relocates him where he can be near Tiivii. After a heartrending escape from the sanitarium - believe me, you will weep as I did at Tiivii's suffering - the return to medical treatment and to the young Inuit boy will relive you as much as it did me.
When Tiivii (note the name, it sounds out as if you were saying "TB") escapes into the wilderness and collapses, ready to die, singing his death song - I tell you, the tears will flow. You can feel this man's pain, his sadness and despair. If you've ever been that ill, as I have, you'll know. If not, you'll learn!
This is an era, an area and a people about whom I know nothing. It is clearly a heavily Eskimo-populated region of Canada; the date is roughly the mid-1930s, judging by the photo of Pope Pius XI on the wall of the sanitarium. The acting is moving and generally warm, though we feel the constant tension of Tiivii's mortality (as does he). The acting by Ungalaq is mesmerizing. The joy you will feel when they finally bring him a filet of raw salmon ... let me quote him: "It is good when someone brings fish to a person who is ill!"
This movie is crisply shot, the colors and everything pitch-perfect, no intrusive soundtrack which is such a pet peeve of mine. While I thought the director was dragging out certain moments unnecessarily, I could live with it. It lent to the atmosphere.
There is an element of Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala (see my review) though there is little in common except an isolated Native and a snowy landscape. But this film is so good, I felt DERSU throughout the entire film. Pilon, best known for the 2007 documentary Des Nouvelles Du Nord (Northern Greetings), really shines here. One hopes for more wonderful, deep and hypnotizing gems like this.
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