Weekend Highlights for L.A. International Film Festival
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival continues at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas this weekend. Highlights from today’s and Sunday’s program follow.
TODAY
‘Mauri’
New Zealand, 1988, 100 minutes 6 p.m. The first-time writer-director, Merata Mita, co-produced the movie with Geoff “Utu” Murphy, and uses that film’s star, Anzac Wallace, as her lead. Mita is also part Maori and what she gives us is a pointed but dreamy penetration into another culture, provincial Maori society in New Zealand, This is a rough-hewn, sometimes fascinating rumination on the nearly mystical links between a people and their land. RECOMMENDED.
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