Eve & the Fire Horse

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Eve & the Fire Horse

2005

1h 32m

Drama

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Eve Eng (Phoebe Jojo Kut) is the 9-year-old daughter of Buddhist Chinese immigrants living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Although Eve has been raised with her family's traditional Chinese beliefs, she begins to doubt that their religion can see her family through a string of misfortunes. Much to the dismay of their traditionally-minded family members, Eve and her equally independent sister, Karena (Hollie Lo), take a new and unusual path: they discover Catholicism.

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

07/06/2007

2.5/4

At times Eve plays like an unshaped memoir. What makes the film almost satisfying is that [director] Kwan has given us a charming and lovingly realized world. But halfway is still only halfway.

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Ken Eisner

Variety

06/20/2007

Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately captured childhood.

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Jennie Punter

Globe and Mail

01/27/2006

3.5/4

One of the most enchanting and memorable films made in this country.

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Dorothy Woodend

The Tyee (British Columbia)

08/24/2017

Fire Horse is a nice enough film, but at the risk of being a curmudgeon, I am hard pressed to see what all the fuss is about. In this fashion, it is intensely Canadian, nice without being too much of anything else.

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David Levine

Filmcritic.com

09/26/2007

2.5/5

The incomplete storylines really do a disservice to Horse's fascinating characters and to those of us watching who feel like part of the family.

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Jason Anderson

eye WEEKLY

06/20/2007

3/5

The script's wry humour and Kwan's sure touch with her cast save it from becoming too sombre or too sentimental. In fact, she's created something rare: a family movie that makes keen observations about family life.

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06/27/2013

The comparison film is Whale Rider which was so much more effective. This effort doesn't quite cut it.

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01/01/2012

Showing a kid's rich fantasy

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08/07/2011

This movie was phenomenal. It made me smile, think, laugh, and cry, and most of all imagine a world different than my own. Beautiful. Being someone who isn't beholden to one religion or another,... I felt it was a movie that anyone could watch without insult. Well done.

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02/19/2011

I think I wanted to like this movie more than I did. It started off alright, but the second part just unraveled in a bad way and the movie just lost direction.

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01/12/2011

Nice period piece about a Chinese-Canadian kid growing up in the seventies. Explores theme of religion and superstition in Chinese culture.

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11/27/2010

beautiful movie. well crafted.

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Synopsis

Eve Eng (Phoebe Jojo Kut) is the 9-year-old daughter of Buddhist Chinese immigrants living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Although Eve has been raised with her family's traditional Chinese beliefs, she begins to doubt that their religion can see her family through a string of misfortunes. Much to the dismay of their traditionally-minded family members, Eve and her equally independent sister, Karena (Hollie Lo), take a new and unusual path: they discover Catholicism.

Director: Julia Kwan
Producer: Shan Tam, Erik Paulsson, Yves J. Ma
Screenwriter: Julia Kwan
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Mar 1, 2007
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Dolby