Thursday, February 24, 2022

Ten Canoes

Ten Canoes is a 2006 award-winning Australian film. According to Wikipedia: It is the first ever movie entirely filmed in Australian Aboriginal languages. The film is partly in colour and partly in black and white, in docudrama style largely with a narrator explaining the story. The overall format is that of a moral tale.

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The Guardian says,
Ten Canoes is a strange beast, both ethnographic document and high-spirited flight of whimsy: a curious mixture of entertainment and anthropology. Any notion that this is “high” or “low” art can be quickly dispelled; this is quintessentially a film about people and storytelling.
Spirituality and Practice calls it "A primal adventure story about forbidden love, sorcery, fear of strangers, and justice that proves that a tale well told is good medicine for all." Rotten Tomatoes has a critics concensus score of 98%.

14 comments:

  1. ...thankfully there is a narrator!

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  2. I absolutely love this. Thanks for sharing it. Have a great day.

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    1. I don't know anyone else who's seen it. Cool!

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    1. Yes. A completely different culture.

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  4. It took a long time before a film in this language happened. Did you like this one also?

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    1. Yes, a fascinating look at a foreign way of life.

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  5. I watched the first 10 or so minutes and just couldn't get into it. I guess I am too tired or something.

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  6. How very intriguing.

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  7. This sounded familiar...went to go look and it has been in my Netflix queue (rental) for a long, long time. So I bumped it up toward the top. :)

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    1. I'm unwilling to pay to rent or buy ;)

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