I was attracted to it because of the setting [the Eastern Arctic] but then I was totally startled because I’d never seen anything shot like that in such a huge landscape but on a digital camera. It’s become a bit more usual now but I think it was kind of at the advent of that. It’s absolutely amazing. It depicts two brothers who are part of a village but then some kind of, perhaps evil, force comes to the village in the shape of a shaman and pits the people against each other and sows these seeds of malcontent via lust. There’s nothing else like it but it’s such a fantastic story. It’s so economical and yet it’s always moving forward. A little bit like Seven Samurai, if you’ve never seen it, it’s like, ‘bloody hell, I don’t know if I fancy watching this for three hours’. But it’s so gripping.
