Merata Mita

  • Merata Mita – Mauri (1988)

    Drama1981-1990Merata MitaNew Zealand

    Official Selection, 2019 Venice Film Festival

    RESTORED IN 2019 BY THE NEW ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION

    There’s a lot of watching in Merata Mita’s landmark MAURI. It’s the 1950s and there’s a storm coming to a once-thriving Maori settlement. Rewi, holding on to an unsettled past, watches the woman he loves (and who loves him back) slip into the arms of a white man. Kara, the town’s elder matriarch, is stirred by the change in the air, of birthrights trembling and a land falling captive. And then there’s Awatea, a young girl standing watch from the circumference of this simmering circle, staring not out of tragedy but of awe, at a Maori life-force re-shuffling off the rippling coasts of the North Island.Read More »

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