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Hybrid, just above average 1998 - unknown Norwegian newspaper
Thanks to Grethe for getting this article and putting in English
A drama comedy occasionally melodramatic and only sometimes funny. This New Zealand hybrid movie still has enough charm and punch to go above average.
Norwegian text Carol Dunn (played by Danielle Cormack from "Topless Women Talk About Their Lives") can take New Zealand's first gold in swimming in the Olympics. She wins the finals in 400m free, while back home in Wellington a tv company has gathered the entire family to celebrate. Via satellite, Carol will have contact with her family and vice versa.
But before we get that far, a few things happen: the tv people indirectly cause old family secrets to surface. It turns out that the sister of the twins Carol and Chrissy actually is their mother, and the father of another sister's child is married to the real mother of the twins. Still with me?
For a while it appears that both the tv transmissions and the unity of the family will collapse, but in the end the threads are gathered again.
The debutant director, Anthony McCarten, has transferred his own successful theatre piece into a very feisty movie, that states that McCarten can become a very interesting name to pay attention to in the future. New Zealand movies are not to be trifled with, directors like Jane Campion and Peter Jackson make sure of that.
Via Satellite
New Zealand 1998
With Danielle Cormack, Tim Balme, Rimi Te Wiata and Karl Urban
Director: Anthony McCarten
Running Time: 90 minutes
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