One Thousand Ropes
Tusi Tamasese • Aotearoa/NZ • 2017
98 mins • M violence & content that may disturb
In English and Samoan with English subtitles
From the award-winning director of The Orator, comes a visually evocative story about the redemption of a man whose healing hands have also inflicted scars on his family.
"Tamasese balances the social-realist drama of Ilisa’s plight with the kind of mystical elements more familiar from the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul." — Hollywood Reporter
98 mins • M violence & content that may disturb
In English and Samoan with English subtitles
From the award-winning director of The Orator, comes a visually evocative story about the redemption of a man whose healing hands have also inflicted scars on his family.
"Tamasese balances the social-realist drama of Ilisa’s plight with the kind of mystical elements more familiar from the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul." — Hollywood Reporter