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Once Were Warriors: what a powerful movie!

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Caught this over the weekend off the satellite, and I haven't seen a movie this powerful and intense that stayed with me for a long time. Eat Drink Man Woman was, maybe the last one. Anyway, this film tells the story of a Maori family (New Zealand) that has a drunken, abusive father, a wife that was member of the Maori elite, and the relative poverty they live in with several kids. Normally, I'm not one to watch an "unfun", intense movie such as this one, but it's really worth it to break out of the mold in this intance. Caught it on IFC Channel, check your local listings.

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Lee Tamahori's best, most personal film. - TAFKA Steve 13:20:13 05/14/02 (2)
Now he's directing typical Hollywood hack films like "The Edge", "Along Came A Spider", and the next James Bond flick.
Rena Owen and Temeura Morrison were something special to watch in "Once Were Warriors."
- Re: Lee Tamahori's best, most personal film. - thekingpin 15:25:47 05/14/02 (0)
  If I were a so-called Hollywood actress-"contendah" (Halle Berry, Helen Hunt, lame list goes on), I'd have been embarassed as hell to watch performances like these and hold that statuette in good conscience.
  I didn't even know that Lee Tamahori directed it. It was about 15 minutes in when I started watching, and then it got me hooked. Why do all great films have that "intangible" thing where you're pulled in no matter which part you caught it? It's like an "air/aura" around the movie :) Hmmmm...
- Yes, ain't it too bad... - Harmonia 13:57:30 05/14/02 (0)
  ...he's directing boring commercial fare in the USA. Once Were Warriors is one of my favorite Kiwi films, along with The Navigator, An Angel at My Table, and Heavenly Creatures. All great stuff.
  Maybe Tamahori will make a personal film again...especially now that (thanks to Peter Jackson) New Zealand is "hot".
  Life would be much less happy at Casa Harmonia without Independent Film Channel.

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