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This Way of Life
‘I treat my children the way I would like to have been raised,’ says Peter Karena, none too impressed by the adoptive father who raised him. In this captivating, visually ravishing doco, we watch Peter and his wife Colleen over an eventful four years as they do whatever it takes to provide emotional security and a life in harmony with nature for their six children.
As charismatic a subject as any filmmaker could ask for, Peter makes ends meet as a horse-whisperer, builder and hunter. Seeing the children riding bareback through the East Coast dunes or astride a horse moving up a river with their father is like glimpsing the infancy of the classical gods. (Yes, Tom Burstyn’s cinematography is that remarkable.) But is such glorious freedom, a respect for nature and the abundant love of family all a child needs? Never evangelical, Peter and Colleen talk with unassuming vitality about the values they are instilling in their children. You might well leave their company persuaded that the parents of the future should be getting to know horses now. (Source: NZ International Film Festival)
Starring Peter Karena, Colleen Karena
Directed by Tom Burstyn
Documentary | 1hr 25mins | Origin: New Zealand | Official Site »
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Sunday Star-Times (Grant Smithies)
Quiety profound, deeply poetic...
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The Dominion Post (Graeme Tuckett)
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Florian Habicht's Kaikohe Demolition and Land of the Long White Cloud, and Juliette Veber's Trouble is my Business, have set a benchmark over the last couple of years that equivalent budget documentaries from anywhere in the world would find hard to match.
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Variety (USA)
A resonant and often stunningly shot portrait of a sprawling, vivacious Maori family that abandons material comforts and a darkly domineering patriarch grandfather,
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Emma
I was extremely moved, being frustrated at my short fused parenting techniques, I now have a lot to think about. Very moving XOXO
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