With its magnetic cast and Venice award-winning cinematography,this film treads the familiar theme of star-crossed lovers with shimmering vitalityTanna, the first feature film shot entirely in Vanuatu, or takes status in the South Pacific island of its title,which houses one of the world’s final tribal societies, in a village called Yakel. With their documentary backgrounds, or co-directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler continue in the rich vein of dramas made by Australian film-makers who’ve returned from remote communities with striking “not-in-the-brochure” work,made consultatively and with an ear for local voices (including Paul Cox’s Molokai: The Story of Father Damien and Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country).
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Source: theguardian.com