ONCE WERE WARRIORS Clip
April 2nd, 2008 by Andre Soares
World Cinema Clips: Written by Riwia Brown (from Alan Duff’s novel) and directed by newcomer Lee Tamahori, Once Were Warriors (1994) was a huge box-office hit in New Zealand.
This socially conscious drama is set in the outskirts of Auckland, where disenfranchised Maoris have to struggle with poverty, alcoholism, crime, and other ghetto issues. In that environment, a woman (Reena Owen) tries to keep her brutish husband (Temuera Morrison) from abusing her and their five children.
"Like Anna Magnani, the late Italian star," wrote Edward Guthmann in the San Francisco Chronicle, "Owen has an elemental, dirt-under- the-fingernails quality — a truthfulness in performance that’s riveting."
The clip below was posted by officerlivingston on youtube.
Technorati Tags: Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori, Maori, Reena Owen, ethnic ghetto
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Reena Owen is one of the greatest actresses in the universe.