Editing Map of the Human Heart (section)

==Release==
''Map of the Human Heart'' premiered out-of-competition at the [[1992 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name=cannes>{{cite web|title=Map of the Human Heart|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/map-of-the-human-heart|website=[[Cannes Film Festival|Festival de Cannes]]|publisher=Association Française du Festival International du Film|accessdate=21 January 2019}}</ref> In Australia, the film was released on 22 April 1993.<ref>{{cite news|last=Connolly|first=Keith|title=Tending to a sense of place|url=https://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/galleries/photos/map-of-the-human-heart|accessdate=12 July 2021|work=[[The Age|The Sunday Age]]|publisher=[[Fairfax Media|John Fairfax Holdings]]|date=18 April 1993|quote=The new film... begins its Melbourne season next Thursday, rated M.}}</ref> The film was released in the Philippines by First Films as ''War Dragon'' on 29 June 1994.<ref>{{cite news|title=Grand Opening Today!|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8cBNEdFwSQkC&dat=19940620&printsec=frontpage|accessdate=12 July 2021|work=[[Manila Standard]]|publisher=Kamahalan Publishing Corporation|date=29 June 1994|page=24|quote=The sensational star of 'Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story' is back in a spectacular adventure that will make him a legend of his own!}}</ref>

===Critical response===
''Map of the Human Heart'' has an almost even rank between critics and audience at [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], indicating that the film is liked by both parties. The site's ranking shows that 23 critics approve the film at 78%, with an average ranking stands at 6.8/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/map_of_the_human_heart|title=Map of the Human Heart (1993)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Flixster]]|accessdate=12 July 2021}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], basing on 18 critics, the film holds a 71 out of a 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/map-of-the-human-heart/details|title=Map of the Human Heart|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=12 July 2021}}</ref>

''Map of the Human Heart'' was critically well received by many film critics. [[Roger Ebert]] noted: "''Map of the Human Heart'' tells a soaring story of human adventure – adventure of the best kind, based not on violence, but on an amazing personal journey. It is incredible sometimes what distances can be traveled in a single human life, and this is a movie about a man who could not have imagined his end in his beginning."<ref>[[Roger Ebert|Ebert, Roger]]. [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/map-of-the-human-heart-1993 "Review: 'Map of the Human Heart'."] ''[[RogerEbert.com]]'', 14 May 1993. Retrieved: 23 December 2015.</ref>

Brian Case in the 2004 ''Time Out Film Guide'', said: "Ward's ambitious epic love story covers two continents and three decades and, its execution apart, could have sprung from one of those fat romantic chronicles written for the typing pool. But Ward has an extravagant visual imagination so that even the more outlandish scenes, like the hero and heroine finally consummating their passion on a half-deflated barrage balloon, linger in the mind. Where lack of money cramps his vision of WWII bombing raids on Germany, the director achieves a pleasing shorthand with lighting."<ref>Case, Brian. [https://www.timeout.com/london/film/map-of-the-human-heart "Review: 'Map of the Human Heart'."] ''Time Out Film Guide''. Retrieved 12 July 2021.</ref><ref>Pin 2004, pp. 744–745.</ref>

Hal Hinson of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' said that the film is of "incantatory intensity".<ref>{{cite news|last=Hinson|first=Hal|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/mapofthehumanheartpg13hinson_a0a818.htm|title='Map of the Human Heart' (PG-13)|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=14 May 1993|accessdate=12 July 2021}}</ref>

===Box office===
''Map of the Human Heart'' grossed A$539,000 at the box office in Australia;<ref>[http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf "Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218045303/http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf|date=18 February 2011}} ''Film Victoria''. Retrieved: 23 December 2015.</ref> £251,167 in the United Kingdom;<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=14 January 1994|page=50|title=UK films and co-productions}}</ref> US$2,806,881 in the United States and Canada and $5 million worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1986233857/weekend/|title=Map of the Human Heart|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[IMDb]]|accessdate=12 July 2021}}</ref><ref name=ww/>

===Accolades===
''Map of the Human Heart'' was screened out of competition at the [[1992 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name=cannes/> The film was nominated for the 1993 Australian Film Institute Awards where the film won as Best Film, and Vincent Ward as Best Director and Robert Joamie won in the category of Young Actor. ''Map of the Human Heart'' was also nominated for Best Original Music Score, Best Achievement in Sound, Editing and Cinematography categories. The film was also a winner in the 1993 Tokyo International Film Festival where Vincent Ward won the Best Artistic Contribution Award, and Robert Joamie along with Anne Parillaud won Special Mention for a Talent of the Future award. Further, Vincent Ward was nominated in the Tokyo Grand Prix. Jason Scott Lee was also nominated in the 1994 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for Most Promising Actor.