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Once Were Warriors (1994)

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Country: NZ
Technical: col 103m
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison

Synopsis:

Unemployment hits a Maori family, already atomised by the father's overbearing behaviour. Before long domestic violence and drunkenness drive the mother to reassess her roots.

Review:

Brutal, foulmouthed racial drama which contrives not to be melodramatic by virtue of the director's firm hold on his material and emotional restraint. He sets a gruelling pace to the catalogue of misfortunes besetting the stricken housewife and her errant offspring, who ultimately embrace her warrior past (she is a Maori royal) rather than the slavery-bred savagery of their father. Gripping adult entertainment, showing a side to NZ not seen before on the screen.

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Country: NZ
Technical: col 103m
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison

Synopsis:

Unemployment hits a Maori family, already atomised by the father's overbearing behaviour. Before long domestic violence and drunkenness drive the mother to reassess her roots.

Review:

Brutal, foulmouthed racial drama which contrives not to be melodramatic by virtue of the director's firm hold on his material and emotional restraint. He sets a gruelling pace to the catalogue of misfortunes besetting the stricken housewife and her errant offspring, who ultimately embrace her warrior past (she is a Maori royal) rather than the slavery-bred savagery of their father. Gripping adult entertainment, showing a side to NZ not seen before on the screen.


Country: NZ
Technical: col 103m
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison

Synopsis:

Unemployment hits a Maori family, already atomised by the father's overbearing behaviour. Before long domestic violence and drunkenness drive the mother to reassess her roots.

Review:

Brutal, foulmouthed racial drama which contrives not to be melodramatic by virtue of the director's firm hold on his material and emotional restraint. He sets a gruelling pace to the catalogue of misfortunes besetting the stricken housewife and her errant offspring, who ultimately embrace her warrior past (she is a Maori royal) rather than the slavery-bred savagery of their father. Gripping adult entertainment, showing a side to NZ not seen before on the screen.

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