SummaryThis 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.
Quest for Fire
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Generally Favorable
79
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Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
55% Positive
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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]
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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
80% Positive
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Aug 21, 2021
8
"Quest for Fire" was a solid reminder about why I enjoy watching films and learning about their art; they are able to express ideas and tell stories by means of well put-together shots, detailed sounds/music, and emotionally charged body language.
Jan 10, 2020
8
Muy buena la verdad, te cuenta por lo que podrían haber pasado nuestros ancestros, en busca de dominar el fuego.
88
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.
80
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.
60
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.
60
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.
40
This is supposed to be serious hard-hitting but with most prehistoric depictions, only manages either school reconstruction or parody.
Jan 22, 2023
7
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.
Jan 25, 2019
1
Start- disgusting
Middle- disgusting
End- disgusting
Total- very disgusting
Production Company:
- International Cinema Corporation (ICC)
- Ciné Trail
- Belstar Productions
- Stéphan Films
- Gruskoff Film Organization
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Famous Players Limited
Release Date:Feb 12, 1982
Duration:1 h 40 m
Rating:R
Tagline:A Science Fantasy Adventure
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Genie Awards
• 5 Wins & 7 Nominations
