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In Spring One Plants Alone

In Spring One Plants Alone

198043m
Documentary

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1980

Runtime

43m

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This is the story of Puhi, an aged Maori woman and Niki, her fully grown but wholly dependent son. The world they occupy is not a world of large events but the rituals of everyday life, traditions and interdependence. “In Spring One Plants Alone” documents the minutiae of their very enclosed existence. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, it emerges as a rare, haunting and powerful portrayal of their life together. This is the story of their rituals and of their survival. The small and disconnected instances that we encounter form a lone vision of the rifts and the bond between an old woman and her disturbed son.

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Status
Released
Runtime
43m
Jul 31, 1980
Director
Vincent Ward
Vincent Ward
Production
Vincent Ward Films
Vincent Ward Films
Production Countries
New Zealand

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