FILM REVIEWS

ALPHA -- a review Produced by Mark Bakshi, with exquisite cinematography by Martin Gschlacht and wonderful screenplay by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, Albet Hughes, the director and story writer of ALPHA has presented an epic drama of man’s struggle in the wilderness. ‘ALPHA’ is the story of Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a young boy not quite on the verge of becoming a man. His father, Tau (Johannes Haukur,Jr), is the chief of a nomadic hunting tribe. He wants to teach his son the tricks of the trade and be his rightful successor as the future leader of the clan. So Keda is forced to join his team of primitive hunters to learn the ropes of the business of hunting. But the boy is not interested in the harsh ways of the game of survival. He is a sensitive, gentle soul and, in his mother’s words, doesn’t want to ‘lead with his spear but his heart’. Separated from his tribe by an accident -- thrown off a vertical cliff by a massive bison -- Keda's odyssey of survival thro...