Papua New Guinean cinema is rare on the world stage, with most filmmaking historically tied to documentary and ethnographic work produced during the Australian colonial period. The Metal Foundry (1984) represents the kind of curio that slips through the cracks of mainstream film culture. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching Cannibal Tours where you catch one of these Western tourists driving a hard bargain over a handcrafted artefact, chipping away at the price with a smile on their face, completely at ease with themselves, and you feel your stomach drop. Not because of anything
Genre Documentary
★ — The Metal Foundry (1984)
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