{"id":2885,"date":"2016-10-14T19:29:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/14\/despite-a-standard-character-arc-long-way-north-manages-to-feel-fresh-and-original\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:29:18","slug":"despite-a-standard-character-arc-long-way-north-manages-to-feel-fresh-and-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/14\/despite-a-standard-character-arc-long-way-north-manages-to-feel-fresh-and-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite a standard character arc, Long Way North manages to feel fresh and original"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chris Knight \/ National Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Northeast Passage, an Arctic sea route over the top of the world, looms as large in the Russian imagination as the Northwest Passage does in ours, and is responsible for about as much heartbreak; during the period from 1877 to 1919, more than a third of planned convoys along the route failed. Now a Danish-French production team has crafted a story that speaks to those long-ago polar peregrinators.<\/p>\n<p>Released in French territories as Tout en haut du monde and set in 1882, Long Way North tells the (fictional) story of Captain Oloukine, whose Russian icebreaker, the Dava\u00ef, is missing and presumed destroyed somewhere near the top of the world. But his headstrong granddaughter, 15-year-old Sasha (Chloe Dunn), finds some papers in his library that suggest would-be rescuers have been looking in the wrong place.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha is an aristocrat by birth, which means no on will listen to her theory, and so she runs away from home and books passage on a northbound ship. While awaiting its departure, she earns her keep working as a waitress and dogsbody in a caf\u00e9. It\u2019s the old princess-forced-to-be-a-commoner routine, and true to form she\u2019s uncommonly good at it. Soon she\u2019ll further prove her mettle when her ship runs into treacherous conditions in the Far North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Knight \/ National Post The Northeast Passage, an Arctic sea route over the top of the world, looms as large in the Russian imagination as the Northwest Passage does in ours, and is responsible for about as much heartbreak; during the period from 1877 to 1919, more than a third of planned convoys along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/14\/despite-a-standard-character-arc-long-way-north-manages-to-feel-fresh-and-original\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Despite a standard character arc, Long Way North manages to feel fresh and original - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/14\/despite-a-standard-character-arc-long-way-north-manages-to-feel-fresh-and-original\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Despite a standard character arc, Long Way North manages to feel fresh and original - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chris Knight \/ National Post The Northeast Passage, an Arctic sea route over the top of the world, looms as large in the Russian imagination as the Northwest Passage does in ours, and is responsible for about as much heartbreak; 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