Rotten
At times Eve plays like an unshaped memoir. What makes the film almost satisfying is that [director] Kwan has given us a charming and lovingly realized world. But halfway is still only halfway.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Overview
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. The journey of a young girl and her sister striving to grow up in world where childhood is lonely and the world is full of wonder.
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83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately captured childhood.
Ken Eisner, Variety
Fresh
One of the most enchanting and memorable films made in this country.
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Eve & the Fire Horse has a kind of poetry that lifts it above the typical drama of immigrant life and gives [Kwan's] characters a lasting poignancy.
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
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