Burning of the Gods

2022 "With his island at risk from industrial tourism and environmental degradation, a boy travels back in time to reconnect with his ancestors."
5.5| 0h7m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 30 July 2022 Released
Producted By: Multinesia Productions
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An airplane lands. A massive cruise boat anchors off the reef, disgorging tourists for tropical island vacations. This postcard paradise depends on petroleum imports to fuel its cars, motorbikes, boats, hotels, pumps and machinery. Yet if the tourists stopped coming, what then? The film opens with the prophetic words of Niuean artist John Pule and continues as a visual tone poem, without dialogue or narration, moving forward into the past to ask questions about the future. A young man travels back in time, from luxury resorts and lagoon tours through pandemic and population exodus, to early Christianity when missionaries incinerated his island’s atua and marae. Finally he reconnects with his tīpuna who settled the island a thousand years ago.

Genre

Drama

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Director

Karin Williams

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Multinesia Productions

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YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10
Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.
Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.