Whale Rider
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Director: Niki Caro
2002 / 101min / DCP
Adapted from acclaimed New Zealand Māori writer Witi Ihimaera’s 1987 novel of the same name, beloved by children and adult readers both, Caro’s similarly cherished family-friendly film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes—whose performance would make her for a time the youngest nominee for Academy Award for Best Actress—as a 12-year-old Māori girl on the island of Whangara who aspires to become chief of her tribe, very much against the wishes of her grandfather. Enormously moving, while nimbly sidestepping cliché and cloying sentiment, and a paean to the natural beauty of the Whangara landscape. “Not a simplistic fable but the story of real people living in modern times… [Castle-Hughes] is a movie star. She glows.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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