Moana
Documentary
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength."
VIBE
A gentle, observational journey into a bygone Polynesian world. It feels like stepping into a dream, a quiet ode to indigenous life and the natural beauty of the South Seas, captured with a tender, ethnographic gaze.
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