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Once Were Warriors (1994)
 
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Directed
by:
Lee Tamahori |
COUNTRY
New
Zealand |
GENRE
Drama |
INTERNATIONAL
TITLE
Once
Were Warriors |
RUNNING
TIME
99
minutes |
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Produced
by:
Robin Scholes |
Written
by:
Riwia Brown |
Review
Lee Tamahori's breakthrough film about violence, rejection and shame in New Zealand's Maori
society is raw, unpolished and highly powerful. Tamahori's brilliant,
maroon colour palette creates a feeling of inescapability, and the film
is crowned with
instinctive, methodical acting performances. There are moments of
dubious competence both in front of and behind the camera, but it is a
movie made and acted by people wearing their hearts on their sleeves. And
while the writing and dialogue at times border on the one-dimensional,
the turning points sequences are so powerful and emotionally
erupting that they carry the film on their own.
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