Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Dir: Taika Waititi
New Zealand, 2016, 101minmins
Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata
Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) is a mischievous – bordering on juvenile delinquent – city boy who moves to the New Zealand countryside to live with a new foster family. But before the rotund 13-year-old gets too comfortable in his new surroundings, Ricky is forced to go on the lam from the police with his foster uncle, Hec (Sam Neill). Out in the bush, Ricky exchanges wisecracks with the curmudgeonly Hec, who teaches the boy how to survive off the land. Director-writer Taika Waititi’s adventure comedy, wildly popular back home in New Zealand, once again displays his sharp eye for interpreting youthful transgressions, as he did in Boy (2010), and wild farce, with the vampire cult hit What We Do in the Shadows (2014).
2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Audience Award
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
2016-08-21 (Sun)
19:302016-08-29 (Mon)
21:45
Festival Grand Cinema
The Grand Cinema
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