Whale Rider (2002)
Country: NZ/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Niki Caro
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa
Synopsis:
A Maori girl is the inheritor of the bloodline from generations of chiefs, but her grandfather resists her attempts to take possession of her birthright because of her sex.
Review:
A gentle, moving drama, which manages to be about both the reassertion of Maori culture in the face of consumerism and economic disempowerment, and a reconfiguring of that culture along gender-egalitarian lines. Histrionics are avoided in favour of a more low-key approach, studying the human face for its quieter, non-verbal modes of expression. In this respect it represents an enriching alternative to the dramatically full-blooded Once Were Warriors.
Country: NZ/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Niki Caro
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa
Synopsis:
A Maori girl is the inheritor of the bloodline from generations of chiefs, but her grandfather resists her attempts to take possession of her birthright because of her sex.
Review:
A gentle, moving drama, which manages to be about both the reassertion of Maori culture in the face of consumerism and economic disempowerment, and a reconfiguring of that culture along gender-egalitarian lines. Histrionics are avoided in favour of a more low-key approach, studying the human face for its quieter, non-verbal modes of expression. In this respect it represents an enriching alternative to the dramatically full-blooded Once Were Warriors.
Country: NZ/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Niki Caro
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa
Synopsis:
A Maori girl is the inheritor of the bloodline from generations of chiefs, but her grandfather resists her attempts to take possession of her birthright because of her sex.
Review:
A gentle, moving drama, which manages to be about both the reassertion of Maori culture in the face of consumerism and economic disempowerment, and a reconfiguring of that culture along gender-egalitarian lines. Histrionics are avoided in favour of a more low-key approach, studying the human face for its quieter, non-verbal modes of expression. In this respect it represents an enriching alternative to the dramatically full-blooded Once Were Warriors.