Wild Life
Overview
An English dreamer experiences both the beauty and harshness of nature when he relocates to the Canadian prairie.
Director
Wendy Tilby
Top Billed Cast
Nonnie Griffin
(voice)
Colin Fox
(voice)
Luba Goy
(voice)
Anthony Bekenn
(voice)
Adam Blackwood
(voice)
Keith Dinicol
(voice)
Reviews

CinemaSerf
3/31/2024
7/10
I liked the brush-stroke style of animation here as we follow a rather naive young Englishman as he leaves the comforts of his upper-class existence and emigrates to Calgary. Now in 1909, that was little more than an hamlet but he has plenty of (parental) cash, so secures a 90-acre spread equipped with a pond and a shack. He's happy enough - though perhaps not as adventurous as he declares to his folks in his letters. With the harsh winter approaching, though, loneliness begins to set in and then... Simultaneously, we have a sequence of inter titles that describe to us something of the life of a comet. It's time near the brightness of the sun before it's journey takes it beyond the orbit of Pluto. Analogous? The narrative pokes a little fun at all things English (even the Scots get their dig in) and is quite amiable. I've only ever been into the north of Canada once - to a British Army Arctic training facility. The bitter cold and the darkness of the winter months is almost claustrophobic - and that was with double glazing and central heating. Brrr!
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