Vanuatu has one of the smallest film industries in the world, but filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues helped put its landscapes on screen in the quietly hypnotic Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget. It's a rare chance to see Melanesian culture and ceremony on film. Have a look at what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching this film where you have to stop and remind yourself that what you're seeing is not fiction. An entire community on a tiny island in Vanuatu, genuinely, fervently waiting for a white American soldier called John Frum to descend from the sky
Genre Documentary
★★½ — Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013)
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