Opens Friday, March 13, at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas The Necessities of Life—one of the finest films of this decade—begins in 1952 on remote Baffin Island, where an expert hunter called Tivii ...

In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak ...