North Country (2005)
Directed by Niki Caro
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
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Director Niki Caro ( North Country , The Zookeeper's Wife ) delivers a Chinese war drama in the vein of Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon .
Director Niki Caro, who proved adept at inspirational tales with "Whale Rider," "North Country" and "McFarland, USA," has a pulse on the heart of the feminist fable, about a woman who masquerades as a man to protect her family and homeland.
It’s quite the epic canvas for New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro, whose short films “Sure to Rise” (1994) and “Memory & Desire” (1998) shined at the Cannes Film Festival before features like “Whale Rider” (2002), “North Country” (2005), “A Heavenly Vintage” (2009), “McFarland, USA” (2015) and “The Zookeeper’s Wife” (2017).
Instantly establishing her film as one of the highlights of this recent obsession, Kiwi director Niki Caro ( Whale Rider , North Country ) reimagines the story as a martial arts epic with bags of visual va-va-voom.
Intriguingly, the film’s directed by Niki Caro, who’s made a series of impressively intimate and internal feminist-themed films including “Whale Rider” (2002), “North Country” (2005) and “The Zookeeper’s Wife” (2017) but gets a bigger palette here – and likely more studio supervision.
Kiwi director Niki Caro ( Zookeeper’s Wife ; Whale Rider ; North Country ) fills the film with a lot of brash colour and high-flying movement but not a lot of emotion or energy.
Contemporary Hollywood has steadfastly avoided the workplace—unless the jobs are particularly glamorous ( Broadcast News , The Devil Wears Prada ), or the workers unfairly exploited ( Silkwood , North Country ) or the fodder for gallows humor (the Mike Judge oeuvre).