Fri., Dec. 23, 2005 12:00 AM PST
Let's say you ditched history class and all you know about Pocahontas is the movie with the talking animals and Vanessa Williams singing about the colors of the wind. What to do? Well, you could read a boring history book, or you could hook your imagination to this other fact-based fiction about Captain John Smith and his Native American gal-pal. As Smith,
Colin Farrell finally finds the right role for himself.
With the exception of whispered voice-overs throughout, he gets to act with his face and his body instead of relying on that dumb old mouth of his. Meanwhile, newcomer Q'Orianka Kilcher might be the most sultry cinematic historical figure to date. Terrence Malick uses their heat and his own sensually overloaded love of landscape photography to make the unpleasant early days of American culture clash into the kind of erotic fantasy that'll never be shown in a classroom.
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