'Ten Canoes': A Tale Well Told

Montreal Mirror | August 27, 2007

There was some worry near the beginning that the film would lurch toward a sort of distanced National Geographic-style anthropological framing of other cultures, but one is quickly drawn into a compelling story full of realized and engaging characters.

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Tags: Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, Ten Canoes

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