Youk the bear biography of abraham

It’s easy to see why The Bear was an international hit that pulled in more than $30 million worldwide. The story of an orphaned bear cub named Youk, it’s a charmer for children, but also suspenseful and realistic enough to appeal to adults.

There’s certainly no language barrier to overcome. Except for a few grunted exchanges between the film’s bad guys, a group of grungy hunters, The Bear tells its story in silence. And sweet, fuzzy Youk’s perilous but exhilarating journeys are the stuff of universal sagas: death, sex, coming of age, and eating big chunks of honeycomb with bare paws.

Youk the bear biography of abraham

Youk’s mother dies in the movie’s opening moments, crushed in a rock slide. The little brown bear lumbers along alone until he’s befriended by a huge black grizzly. They’re chased by the hunters — in the film’s most upsetting scene the grizzly is shot in the shoulder — but they spend much of the time just being bears: eating, sleeping, climbing, nuzzling.

Director Jean-Jacques Annau