“Drawing Home” takes place amid golden-needled pines, aquamarine lakes and warm firelight, all against the palette of gray rock and white snow that is the Canadian Rockies. A more stunning film landscape than this one, Canada’s Banff National Park in Alberta, is hard to find.
This is the home that the wealthy Catharine Robb (the Canadian actress Julie Lynn Mortensen), a Boston debutante, is drawn to, the home where her art school classmate Peter Whyte (Juan Riedinger) grew up, close to the land and with tight ties to the native Stoney Nakoda people. This independent film, directed by Markus Rupprecht, who was also one of the authors of the screenplay, is a fictionalized biography of this couple, and a story that might be new to audiences in the United States.
A mild film, “Drawing Home” could use an electrical charge, or an undercurrent of urgency. The pacing is uneven, and the movie feels slow in spots and too long overall, even though it lacks detail that would have enriched it. An internet search offers a fuller idea about the real lives of the subjects.
It takes a long time to bring the two together, and to free Catharine from the clutches of her mother (Kate Mulgrew), who wants to cement Catharine’s relationship with that emblem of East Coast prosperity John D. Rockefeller III. In contrast, Peter and Catharine’s life together, the presumed heart of the story, is fleeting and only lightly sketched, especially when times are hard.
Photographs of Catharine that serve to cover the final years of her life are no substitute for what the movie might have shown us.
Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 52 minutes.
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