‘I treat my children the way I would like to have been raised,’ says Peter Karena, none too impressed by the adoptive father who raised him. In this captivating, visually ravishing doco, we watch Peter and his wife Colleen over an eventful four years as they do whatever it takes to provide emotional security and a life in harmony with nature for their six children.
As charismatic a subject as any filmmaker could ask for, Peter makes ends meet as a horse-whisperer, builder and hunter. Seeing the children riding bareback through the East Coast dunes or astride a horse moving up a river with their father is like glimpsing the infancy of the classical gods. (Yes, Tom Burstyn’s cinematography is that remarkable.) But is such glorious freedom, a respect for nature and the abundant love of family all a child needs? Never evangelical, Peter and Colleen talk with unassuming vitality about the values they are instilling in their children. You might well leave their company persuaded that the parents of the future should be getting to know horses now. (Source: NZ International Film Festival)
I apologise, we feel bad, but there's no trailer available. ~Ed.
I am glad to know that there are still individual out there that live what they preach, they set a standard for the rest of us...
I'm totally blown away....been thinking about this family for 3 weeks now. God bless them!! Being rejected by a parent blows a hole in a person.... Stay strong Pete!! Colleen and the kids will see you through.
i loved this movie ! i meet them ! i went on there horse trek with my school ?!
Wow, only saw trailers but what a lovely family. With so many examples of 'missing fathers' in the lives of their children and hard economic times Peter and Colleen you have more than we'll ever have - it's a beautiful tale of the fusion of love, man and nature...
all round
Quiety profound, deeply poetic...
Florian Habicht's Kaikohe Demolition and Land of the Long White Cloud, and Juliette Veber's Trouble is my Business, have set a benchmark over the last couple of years that equivalent budget documentaries from anywhere in the world would find hard to match.
A resonant and often stunningly shot portrait of a sprawling, vivacious Maori family that abandons material comforts and a darkly domineering patriarch grandfather,
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 11th Mar 2010.
Release date: March 11th 2010.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
