Word: herenikoã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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Filmed with great patience and skill, and accompanied beautifully by a rich, haunting soundtrack, Hereniko??€™s picture brilliantly captures the tension slowly consuming an island torn between its loyalty to deeply abiding tradition and submission to an ever-encroaching modernism...
This salient conflict pervades the film and is subtly highlighted by Hereniko??€™s direction of the most mundane aspects of daily life. Viki is in many ways a typical Rotuman girl, learning traditional dances and helping her father harvest coconuts; however, she also studies English in a modern, Western-style school and dreams of earning a prestigious scholarship to leave Rotuma for the big island of Fiji...
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