The Whaler Boy

DVD Features

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "There’s an almost fable-like simplicity to this atmospheric coming of age story. The film’s unfamiliar backdrop is captured vividly and intimately...."
  Wendy Ide, Screen Daily
• Highest Rating
  "[A] brilliant premise for a movie and Yuryev delivers on that promise big time. His screenplay is minutely observant, unafraid to explore various themes and truly original. First-time actor Onokhov is a stunner. The two cinematographers Mikhail Khursevich and Yakov Mironichev are also making their feature debut with this film and their work is equally astounding. By capturing the endless expanse and the untouched ancient appeal of Chukotka in wide angles and naturalistic light, they’ve created visual poetry that will be hard to forget."
  Zhuo-Ning Su, Awards Daily
• Highest Rating
  "The Whaler Boy is a film about finding our place in the world, universal in its portrayal of the turbulence of adolescence with its first loves, jealousies and yearning for escape, but unique for the place in which it’s set, half-way between two continents, with America on the one side and Russia on the other, the past on one side and the future on the other. "
  Vittoria Scarpa, Cineuropa
• Highest Rating
  "The Whaler Boy is a quietly absorbing story from a part of the world that’s rarely seen on screen."
  Oliver Johnston, The Upcoming
• Highest Rating
  "[A] delicately unusual and visually resplendent ... stark but richly satisfying feature."
  Meredith Taylor, Filmuforia
• Highest Rating
  "The Whaler Boy is an intimate and immersive coming of age story... entrancing."
  Katie Garwood, The Slice