Samoa has a small but striking film culture, and The Orator (2011) made history as the first Samoan feature film, earning the country its first Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film. Vai (2019) followed, a portmanteau film tracing one woman's story across nine Pacific Island nations. See what Macca made of both below.
Rating: 2.5★
Robert Flaherty is one of those filmmakers whose reputation rests almost entirely on a handful of films made across a relatively short window, yet whose influence on documentary cinema is almost impossible to overstate. His debut feature, Nanook of the North (1922), established a model for location-based, observational filmmaking
Genre Drama
★★½ — The Orator (2011)
Genre Drama
★★★½ — Vai (2019)
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