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White Lies
Director: Dana Rotberg
South Pacific Pictures
Here, a Witi Ihimaera novella is stretched to breaking point by a filmmaker who chose to adopt New Zealand as home and workplace after seeing Whale Rider. So we have a bloodless and boring fan-letter as film.
The opening moments suggest something good may come – that’s ruined as soon as
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