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- 1982
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 40 m
- 1982
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 40 m
Summary This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
Directed By: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Written By: Gérard Brach, J.H. Rosny Sr.
- 1982
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 40 m
- 1982
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 40 m
Quest for Fire
79
7.0
Where to Watch
Summary This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
Directed By: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Written By: Gérard Brach, J.H. Rosny Sr.
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
79
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
79
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The title is a tease: Quest For Fire is the quest for understanding, the quest for an answer, the quest for The Answer. Quest For Fire maintains that in the space of 80,000 years we have walked a long, long way, and have come scarcely any distance at all. [12 Feb 1982]
Quest for Fire expresses an eloquent partiality for civilized virtues, especially companionship, sexual bonding and parenthood. [05 Mar 1982, p.B12]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
7.0
75% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
13% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
13% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
7.0
75% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
13% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
13% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
These characters and their quest began to grow on me, and by the time the movie was over I cared very much about how their lives would turn out.
Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire is an engaging prehistoric yarn that happily never degenerates into a club and lion skin spinoff of Star Wars and resolutely refuses to bludgeon the viewer with facile or gratuitous effects.
Although occasionally bleak, the film affords many pleasurable moments, showing early man learning to laugh and expressing delight and amazement at the sight of fire.
If you have a weakness for exotic scenery (filmed in Canada, Scotland, Kenya), and some curiosity about the everyday life of prehistoric humankind, you will probably take some mild pleasure in this saga of the Ulam tribe's search for a way to light their fire.
This is supposed to be serious hard-hitting but with most prehistoric depictions, only manages either school reconstruction or parody.
A brave and unique film, albeit based on some pretty dubious / conjectural anthropology (Desmond Morris). If you can commit to see it through, it's actually a pretty solid story.
I don't know if we can consider 'consent' as a concept understood by proto-humans. I would like to think the concept existed, if not as a word. So yeah, this film contains depictions of sexual violence.
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Start- disgusting
Middle- disgusting
End- disgusting
Total- very disgusting
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Genie Awards
• 5 Wins & 7 Nominations
