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IMAX: Great North

www.english.montrealplus.ca
Maxime Demers

In an exclusive Canadian premiere, the IMAX film Great North, produced and distributed by TVA International, will be showing at the Paramount Montreal IMAX theatre from February to June 2001. The film will be presented in its original English version and in French as well. Great North is a large format IMAX film, the beauty of which won over critics and audiences alike during recent screenings in Montreal at the World Film Festival, and in London and Los Angeles. The film was hailed by the Montreal daily newsaper La Presse as "probably the most beautiful film eve made about the North (...) a masterpiece of cinematography". Great North introduces Inuit peoples living in harmony with the harsh elements of the Canadian Arctic, within the world's largest herd of migratory mammals: the caribou, and also describes the way of life of the Saami culture of Northern Sweden.

The unique experience of large-format screen projections take viewers on an odyssey through majestic polar regions, whose rarely seen wealth of fauna and nature command respect and wonder. Thanks to the IMAX process, Great North captures the essence of the Arctic polar circle, one of the planet's least explored territories.

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