Review: In ‘The North Water,’ There’s Blood on the Ice

Andrew Haigh of “Looking” makes an Arctic adventure, filmed above Svalbard and featuring Colin Farrell as a frightening harpoonist.

By Mike Hale

The talented British writer and director Andrew Haigh doesn’t like to be pinned down. His last three films, all excellent, have been all over the place: a domestic drama with an element of mystery about an aging British couple (“45 Years”); a rueful gay-friendship tale set in San Francisco (“Looking: The Movie”); and a heartbreaking, violent coming-of-age story about a boy and a horse in the American West (“Lean on Pete”).

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