M. Leary

Whale Rider (Caro, 2003)

(Ed. Note: This was originally published at The Matthew’s House Project.) Whale Rider is packed with all the clichés we would expect to find in a film about a village on the fringe of the world, both geographically and culturally. It has the brow-furrowed and taciturn Maori grandfather, the wise and winking grandmother who really wears […]