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Green star Captain Ahab

don't miss! France, Sweden, 2007 | 97 min. | Dir. Philippe Ramos

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Captain Ahab Fewer than three minutes into this prequel to Moby Dick, young Ahab (thin, pale, literate) watches his father (stocky, hairy, illiterate) loading his gun and his hunting bag. "Why are you so glum?" the father asks. "It's hunting," the boy says, "I'd like to go, too." “No,” his father says. “I’m proud that you can read… not much use though to hunt a stag.” Director Philippe Ramos quickly uncovers the thorny essence of Ahab: the brooding temper of a poet wrestling with the lust of a hunter. The rest of the movie is a quiet, beautiful picaresque of Ahab running away from home toward the coast—the deadly sea pulling Ahab like the moon pulls the tides. By Brendan Kiley

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