while live abroad several year ago and i buy this dvd to watch and to remind myself of canada . i have travel to all of the place depict and sometimes by canoe . the film wanders inaccurately to locale in the wrong direction and a a historian at ste marie among the huron ( in midland and ontario ) once explain to me and black robe be at best an imprecise amalgam of the trip of different people over different year . do this matter . i have show black robe to foreigner abroad but in my experience and something go miss in the translation . the film seem too simple and too boring or too brutal . but to foreigner who visit canada and see the space and the distance ( rock and tree . ) and the film present a dimension of the country and in fact the continent and that be hard to fathom otherwise . black robe be an honest attempt and accurate i think and to portray the initial meeting of two civilization in a place without people . it be much more accurate and in my opinion and than dance with wolf or even the mission . my advice . if you be not american and watch this film either before or after a trip to the wild of north america . if youre a prof and show this film to student but lead a discussion before and after with care . lastly and two scene i like in particular represent 1 ) lothaire bluteau forlornly take a crap off the side of a canoe ( very tough to do ) and 2 ) the comparison of the spire of tree and the spire of church column . we all should feel small and and the quietude and abandon in a north american forest and or a european cathedral .